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From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:23:16
Message-Id: 45475AE5.3010808@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error by Sean
1 Sean wrote:
2 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 >> On Sunday 29 October 2006 03:32, sean wrote:
4 >>> I received the following error running emerge --newuse world.
5 >>> Would anyone be able to explain and advise on how to cure?
6 >>> I was seeing this error recently, even before my recent upgrade of gcc.
7 >>>
8 >>> emerge --newuse world
9 >>>
10 >>> >>> --newuse implies --update... adding --update to options.
11 >>>
12 >>> Calculating world dependencies /
13 >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "media-video/nvidia-glx".
14 >>> (dependency required by "media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r8" [ebuild])
15 >>>
16 >>>
17 >>
18 >> emerge nvidia-driver and retry.
19 >
20 > Well as you said I emerged nvidia-driver and that has now killed X for
21 > me. Tried following the Gentoo nvidia guide again, but unable to get X
22 > up again.
23 >
24 > Things I have noticed.
25 > 1) In Dmesg Linux version lists 'Linux version 2.6.16-gentoo-r9' and
26 > (gcc version 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
27 >
28 > Since I just upgraded GCC to 4 should this be GCC 4 now, does this
29 > mean the kernel needs to be compiled again?
30 >
31 > 2) Also in Dmesg 'nvidia: version magic '2.6.16-gentoo-r9 SMP gcc-4.1'
32 > should be '2.6.16-gentoo-r9 SMP gcc-3.4'
33 > This line starts popping up several times during the rest of Dmesg.
34 >
35 > 3) emerge --update --deep --newuse
36 > --world;revdep-rebuild;revdep-rebuild keeps stating similar to what I
37 > wrote originally up above
38 >
39 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "media-video/nvidia-glx".
40 > (dependency required by "media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11" [ebuild)
41 >
42 > NOTE: There is no nvidia-glx in portage.
43 >
44 > 4) Startx fails with the following
45 > FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
46 > (lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/video/nvidia.ko): Invalid module format
47 > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
48 > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
49 > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usuable configuration.
50 >
51 > Fatal server error:
52 > no screen found
53 > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
54 > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
55 >
56 > NOTE: I have not changed my xorg.conf.
57 >
58 > Thanks for any help,
59 > Sean
60 >
61
62 I think you have to do:
63
64 emerge -C nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel
65 emerge nvidia-drivers
66 revdep-rebuild
67 /etc/init.d/xdm stop
68 rmmod nvidia
69 modprobe nvidia
70 /etc/init.d/xdm start
71
72 --
73 Best regards,
74 Daniel
75
76
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error Sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net>