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From: massi ppp <massi.prosperi@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:19:05
Message-Id: CABHuLZL57HbMbpKqppGLBce_PnWF6DCY3neUrjAWhgAufM0BnQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble by Corbin Bird
1 on ~amd64 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers, are supported to kernel 4.8; i not
2 find any warnings.
3
4 On Dec 3, 2016 3:49 PM, "Corbin Bird" <corbinbird@×××××××.net> wrote:
5
6 >
7 > On 12/03/2016 03:23 AM, Kai Krakow wrote:
8 > > Am Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:00:58 +0100
9 > > schrieb massi ppp <massi.prosperi@×××××.com>:
10 > >
11 > >> hello
12 > >>
13 > >> i' m try to install nvidia-drivers latest on gentoo 4.8.11 gcc
14 > >> compiler 5.4.
15 > >>
16 > >> i've compiled kernell with genkernell, the driver has compiled, but
17 > >> not work because kernel conflict, i recompiled the same kernel
18 > >> following the istruction on handbook, but when i try to emerge nvidia
19 > >> driver portage fail to compile.
20 > >>
21 > >> i try also to find the problem to add or remove graphics and firmware
22 > >> correlated features by menuconfig, and recompliling kernel.
23 > >>
24 > >> the result is:
25 > >> the module nvidia.ko missing some value:
26 > >>
27 > >> lib/modules/4.8.11-gentoo/video.ko needs unknown symbol:
28 > > Maybe you are stripping unneeded symbols? Try to recompile the kernel
29 > > without this option first.
30 > >
31 >
32 > Curiosity : At one point the ( x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ) package was
33 > reporting during build, kernels higher than 4.4 were not supported (
34 > nvidia's policy ). Has that changed?
35 >
36 >