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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:07:19 +0200
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On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
> > installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against
> > each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and installs a
> > kernel driver into /lib/modules/<kernel version>)
>
> It's a bit more obfuscated than that. Maybe nvidia-drivers work
> different, but ati-drivers will build against /usr/src/linux but install
> the actual modules in /lib/modules/running_kernel. If /usr/src/linux
> doesn't point to the running kernel, the modules will be installed in
> the wrong place.
That is just so mind-bogglingly absurdly stupid I doubt if ATI should even be
allowed near a computer....
Compiling code never depends on something running, it only depends on things
being present that can be linked against.
Thanks for reminding me why I insist on NVidia GPUs, I'd forgotten.
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com