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From: Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:47:28
Message-Id: 5842DACA.2010003@charter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble by Kai Krakow
1 On 12/03/2016 03:23 AM, Kai Krakow wrote:
2 > Am Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:00:58 +0100
3 > schrieb massi ppp <massi.prosperi@×××××.com>:
4 >
5 >> hello
6 >>
7 >> i' m try to install nvidia-drivers latest on gentoo 4.8.11 gcc
8 >> compiler 5.4.
9 >>
10 >> i've compiled kernell with genkernell, the driver has compiled, but
11 >> not work because kernel conflict, i recompiled the same kernel
12 >> following the istruction on handbook, but when i try to emerge nvidia
13 >> driver portage fail to compile.
14 >>
15 >> i try also to find the problem to add or remove graphics and firmware
16 >> correlated features by menuconfig, and recompliling kernel.
17 >>
18 >> the result is:
19 >> the module nvidia.ko missing some value:
20 >>
21 >> lib/modules/4.8.11-gentoo/video.ko needs unknown symbol:
22 > Maybe you are stripping unneeded symbols? Try to recompile the kernel
23 > without this option first.
24 >
25
26 Curiosity : At one point the ( x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ) package was
27 reporting during build, kernels higher than 4.4 were not supported (
28 nvidia's policy ). Has that changed?

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 4.8.11 nvidia trouble massi ppp <massi.prosperi@×××××.com>