Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 25 January 2011 22:43:17 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:33 on Tuesday 25 January 2011,
> Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 17:05:41 Bill Longman wrote:
> > > You can *always* compile any package against your choice of
> > > kernel. Just use "KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/mykerneldir emerge
> > > package". It doesn't have to be the running kernel or the
> > > current kernel.
> >
> > We've been through this once.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong[1] but wasn't it you who had this problem
> last time around?

T'was I.

> Did you ever figure out what the problem really was?

I haven't investigated any further yet because it would need too much 
regression. As I said at the time, I'll check it when the next upgrade 
comes along.

> [1] old age this end = fuzzy memory = get names mixed up sometimes

Eh? I thought you were just a young whipper-snapper. And no, you can't 
have any fuzzy memory - it's all taken.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.