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Pawel Kraszewski wrote: |
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> Dnia wtorek, 31 października 2006 16:59, Daniel Iliev napisał: |
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>> My X is just fine. It is Mr. Sean who has hard time with the X. |
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>> I think gcc version should not have impact on X because NVidia's drivers |
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>> are binary, closed source - they don't care about the gcc used to |
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>> compile the kernel or the X server. Actually I think the emerge only |
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>> installs those drivers and checks for common configuration errors. |
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> No. In this case you'd need new NVidia kernel driver each time kernel's |
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> version changes. |
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> During installation NVidia's kernel module (in compiler's meaning - .o file |
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> provided by NVidia) is linked against a freshly compiled stub adopting it to |
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> running kernel and making kernel module (in kernel's meaning - .ko file). |
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> If you compile kernel and kernel module (.ko) with different compilers, you'll |
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> get 'invalid module format' and modprobe/insmod fails. |
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Point taken. You and Mr. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. are correct. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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