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 1GexL6-0002lV-Cb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:23:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9VHIstl005965; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:18:54 GMT Received: from mail.libertysurf.net (mx-out.libertysurf.net [213.36.80.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9VHIrsv023225 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:18:54 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.3] (88.122.39.166) by mail.libertysurf.net (7.3.117.3) id 453E0DFA001557C3 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:18:53 +0100 From: Mathieu Seigneurin To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:18:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <4547594F.1070406@verizon.net> <200610311719.44939.Gentoo@kraszewscy.net> <45478234.4050302@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <45478234.4050302@verizon.net> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610311818.53412.mseigneurin@tiscali.fr> X-Archives-Salt: 9ff46d72-51fb-4dd7-be5a-08907a705577 X-Archives-Hash: f4440c6ee7164b90d4073090da97f484 On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:04, Sean wrote: > Pawel Kraszewski wrote: > > No. In this case you'd need new NVidia kernel driver each time kernel's > > version changes. > > > > During installation NVidia's kernel module (in compiler's meaning - .o > > file provided by NVidia) is linked against a freshly compiled stub > > adopting it to running kernel and making kernel module (in kernel's > > meaning - .ko file). > > > > If you compile kernel and kernel module (.ko) with different compilers, > > you'll get 'invalid module format' and modprobe/insmod fails. > > Since my gcc upgrade all my modules fail on boot with an error of > version magic '2.6.16-gentoo-r9 SMP gcc-4.1' should be > '2.6.16.16-gentoo-r9 SMP gcc-3.4' > > However when I try to start the rebuild of my kernel it stops just after > starting with the line > > 'if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F > System.map 2.6.16-gentoo-r9; fi' > > any ideas on the cause? You need to "make clean" before you "make". Backup your .config, not sure how much cleaning "make clean" does. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list