Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Jacob Smullyan <smulloni@××××××××.org>
To: Wes Morgan <wesm@×××××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] modprobe failing for all modules
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:42:12
Message-Id: 1088088126.31351.25.camel@bracknell.smullyan.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] modprobe failing for all modules by Wes Morgan
1 On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:30, Wes Morgan wrote:
2 > What version of gcc did you compile the kernel with? If it is gcc 3.3.x, then
3 > the problem is that the 2.4 kernel source is not compatible with gcc 3.3.x
4 > and won't be until at least the 2.4.28-pre series (according to Marcelo).
5
6 That was it! Thanks very much, I'd never have suspected gcc.
7
8 > I ran into this problem too. My workaround was to give
9 > gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r3 a try. I'm running that kernel now, it worked
10 > pretty fantastically; much better than previous ppc-development-sources
11 > kernels that I'd tried. (ppc-development-sources is now gone because Ben's
12 > ppc patches go straight into Linus' tree now, so gentoo-dev-sources is the
13 > 2.6-series sources to use on ppc now).
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15 I had previously tried gentoo-2.6.5 and vanilla 2.6.7, but had problems
16 with X and my nvidia card.
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