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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 07:58:16
Message-Id: 20161204085759.704cc42e@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble by Corbin Bird
1 Am Sat, 03 Dec 2016 08:46:34 -0600
2 schrieb Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net>:
3
4 > On 12/03/2016 03:23 AM, Kai Krakow wrote:
5 > > Am Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:00:58 +0100
6 > > schrieb massi ppp <massi.prosperi@×××××.com>:
7 > >
8 > >> hello
9 > >>
10 > >> i' m try to install nvidia-drivers latest on gentoo 4.8.11 gcc
11 > >> compiler 5.4.
12 > >>
13 > >> i've compiled kernell with genkernell, the driver has compiled, but
14 > >> not work because kernel conflict, i recompiled the same kernel
15 > >> following the istruction on handbook, but when i try to emerge
16 > >> nvidia driver portage fail to compile.
17 > >>
18 > >> i try also to find the problem to add or remove graphics and
19 > >> firmware correlated features by menuconfig, and recompliling
20 > >> kernel.
21 > >>
22 > >> the result is:
23 > >> the module nvidia.ko missing some value:
24 > >>
25 > >> lib/modules/4.8.11-gentoo/video.ko needs unknown symbol:
26 > > Maybe you are stripping unneeded symbols? Try to recompile the
27 > > kernel without this option first.
28 > >
29 >
30 > Curiosity : At one point the ( x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ) package
31 > was reporting during build, kernels higher than 4.4 were not
32 > supported ( nvidia's policy ). Has that changed?
33
34 According to portage git changes: Yes. And it looks like the warning is
35 no longer reported for 4.8 as it works for me - no warning reported and
36 no user patches applied to kernel.
37
38 --
39 Regards,
40 Kai
41
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