From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GewP6-0003Ql-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:23:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9VGJoFT024197; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:19:50 GMT Received: from v27657.home.net.pl (v27657.home.net.pl [89.161.156.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9VGJnQ7023712 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:19:49 GMT Received: from egd202.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl (HELO alpha64.lan) (pawel.kraszewscy@home@83.21.67.202) by m058.home.net.pl with SMTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:19:47 -0000 From: Pawel Kraszewski To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:19:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <4547594F.1070406@verizon.net> <45475F98.1070603@pro.onet.pl> <454772F9.5030807@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <454772F9.5030807@ilievnet.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610311719.44939.Gentoo@kraszewscy.net> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9VGJnQ7023712 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9VGJoGM024197 X-Archives-Salt: a8a3b186-ee9d-4fa1-b55f-5b6c64dc74e7 X-Archives-Hash: 7119ad09dbd607b5e7bbffdefe0713ee Dnia wtorek, 31 pa=C5=BAdziernika 2006 16:59, Daniel Iliev napisa=C5=82: > My X is just fine. It is Mr. Sean who has hard time with the X. > I think gcc version should not have impact on X because NVidia's driver= s > are binary, closed source - they don't care about the gcc used to > compile the kernel or the X server. Actually I think the emerge only > installs those drivers and checks for common configuration errors. No. In this case you'd need new NVidia kernel driver each time kernel's=20 version changes. During installation NVidia's kernel module (in compiler's meaning - .o fi= le=20 provided by NVidia) is linked against a freshly compiled stub adopting it= to=20 running kernel and making kernel module (in kernel's meaning - .ko file).= =20 If you compile kernel and kernel module (.ko) with different compilers, y= ou'll=20 get 'invalid module format' and modprobe/insmod fails. --=20 Pawel Kraszewski www.kraszewscy.net --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list