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Hi, |
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5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia |
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driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had |
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to roll back to my old nv driver. |
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Best regards, |
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Evgeniy B. |
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Dale wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> |
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> I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.29. It seems the drivers won't build against that |
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> kernel or the drivers that do build won't let X come up. How do I find |
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> out what drivers are compatible with what kernels and my old card? |
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> Currently, I am using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 with |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.23-gentoo-r8 which are quite old. From my google |
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> search it seems that is the last version that works with the old video card. |
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> |
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> The drivers I am currently using works fine for me with my old kernel. |
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> It just doesn't build against the newer kernel or it fails to let the |
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> GUI come up. Any magic tricks? Anybody with a 2.6.29 kernel and a |
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> FX-5200 card care to share what version of drivers they are using? ;-) |
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> |
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> I think this is the error log for trying to build the current video |
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> drivers against the newer kernel: |
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> |
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>> INFO: setup |
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>> Determining the location of the kernel source code |
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>> Found kernel source directory: |
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>> /usr/src/linux |
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>> Found sources for kernel version: |
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>> 2.6.29-gentoo |
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>> Checking for MTRR support ... |
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>> Checking for Paravirtualized guest support ... |
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>> |
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>> INFO: unpack |
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>> Applying NVIDIA_glx-defines.patch ... |
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>> Applying NVIDIA_glx-glheader.patch ... |
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>> Applying NVIDIA_i2c-hwmon.patch ... |
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>> Converting NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg0/usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild |
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>> to use M= instead of SUBDIRS= ... |
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>> |
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>> INFO: compile |
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>> Preparing nvidia module |
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>> |
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>> ERROR: compile |
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>> |
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>> ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 failed. |
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>> Call stack: |
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>> ebuild.sh, line 48: Called src_compile |
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>> environment, line 3695: Called linux-mod_src_compile |
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>> environment, line 2711: Called die |
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>> The specific snippet of code: |
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>> eval "emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" |
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>> CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- |
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>> LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} |
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>> ${BUILD_PARAMS} |
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>> ${BUILD_TARGETS} " || die "Unable to emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" |
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>> CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} |
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>> ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}"; |
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>> The die message: |
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>> Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc |
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>> CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 |
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>> SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/usr/src/linux |
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>> HOST_CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module |
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>> |
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>> If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack |
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>> if relevant. |
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>> A complete build log is located at |
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>> '/var/log/portage/elog/x11-drivers:nvidia-drivers-173.14.09:20090331-205939.log'. |
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>> The ebuild environment file is located at |
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>> '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09/temp/environment'. |
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>> |
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> |
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> I just want to have my GUI and a newer kernel please. :-) |
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> |
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> Thanks much. |
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> |
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> Dale |
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> |
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> :-) :-) |
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> |
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