Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers

[Dale]

James wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann <at> tu-clausthal.de> writes:
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>>> NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] && NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
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>> that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers.
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>> The FX card ist even supported by the latest drivers!
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> Yep I got this one(FX 5200) working with the lastest driver.
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>> The Gf2 based ones are supported by the 7186 drivers - which are even in
>> portage.
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>
> Hmmm,
> I'm using 2.6.24-gentoo-r3.
>
> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.01
> <snip>
> *** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***
>
> make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1
>  *
>  * ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.01 failed.
>  * Call stack:
>  *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
>  *             environment, line 3558:  Called linux-mod_src_compile
>  *             environment, line 2624:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *               emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" CC="$(get-KERNEL_CC)"
> LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS} ||
> die "Unable to make ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}.";
>  *  The die message:
>  *   Unable to make  IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux
> SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r3/build clean module.
>
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> I've never seen this before....
> " Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the
> kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify
> their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or
> the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option."
>
> So where/how do I set the SYSSRC variable?
>
> Or is something else wrong?
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>

Did you make the symlink to the kernel sources?  /usr/src/linux should 
point to the current kernel version like this:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 2008-03-03 21:26 linux -> 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8/

Your version may vary tho.

Dale

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