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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 20:14:10
Message-Id: 200605022149.30012.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources by "S. Schwartz"
1 On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:03, S. Schwartz wrote:
2 > Alexander Kirillov wrote:
3 > > I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to
4 > > gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3.
5 > > And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers:
6 > > media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756
7 > > media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756
8 > > media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3
9 > > Did you rebuild nvidia-glx and all the dependencies?
10 >
11 > The only dependency with nvidia-kernel seems to be virtual/modutils,
12 > which kind of pointed to sys-apps/module-init-tools. I reemerged that
13 > and tried the newest nvidia-kernel version. It builds, but the module
14 > fails to load. dmesg sais (and this is, where it get really great):
15 >
16 > NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro GPU installed in this system is
17 > NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA Legacy drivers. Please
18 > NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
19 > NVRM: information. The 1.0-8756 NVIDIA driver will ignore
20 > NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe...
21 > NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
22 >
23 > To me this means that I need the old module with the correct patches.
24
25 you don't need 6629 in that case. You can go to 7174.
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