Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Pawel Kraszewski wrote:
> Dnia wtorek, 31 października 2006 16:59, Daniel Iliev napisał:
>
>   
>> 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 drivers
>> 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 
> 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.
>
>   

Point taken. You and Mr. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. are correct.


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Best regards,
Daniel


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