From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PeQBY-0007Ek-12 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:50:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 288F2E08F9; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F59E08F9 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so2178415ywa.40 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:48:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jzQ+wb5xOYgcvvQgLMRvzSb2TAMEn1ppb3YxkRrAyw0=; b=J5e8b1rmJQnMBj2kpnUUrPo4KuwO2x2yR4KNrdZv4PziTCYxHXvXebPApMqfaSY34O et8fbJU15hk2MhG8RtgUmVwHhvn8PHdZjbl3dCj5ZUEyxOSWY+VhTKB/Eei9SpIEP9P8 hCsKKxA8tjB6rd25BU5FAYR4OCVLTvVp26OO0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cxc+UiMdwtCrf35o+KdSlEpBG+ppyAYkpHmG9CHvPslPA6R5I8abs6vOReotsNKkRr rfmBoQ+4dwQuuRIWHoxVGBgoEMpeHHxDUfAN/XIu7eKwRYMvmiStzv2M7wv5DqNoDIiQ X29cNPi7eNcpft6/CJQzQ1BvC6peIevgIs47o= Received: by 10.147.35.9 with SMTP id n9mr4122673yaj.24.1295174929445; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:48:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-124-95.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.124.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 35sm3973993ano.31.2011.01.16.02.48.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:48:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D32CD0D.3090606@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:48:45 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101212 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module References: <5309.1295145276@ccs.covici.com> <6203.1295148341@ccs.covici.com> <201101160918.06073.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201101160918.06073.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ffe0550e-c788-4649-afdc-41e838a08b37 X-Archives-Hash: a08d8c234a9299840646eadca46879b7 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >> Adam Carter wrote: >> >>> Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the >>> module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If >>> its not set correctly you'll need to re-emerge nvidia-drivers. >>> >> linux is pointing correctly and it was after I emerged the >> nvidia-drivers that I got the invalid argument. >> > You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a kernel > version other than the currently running one - it complains it can't find > a valid kernel config. This means that, after emerging a new kernel > version, it's necessary to reboot with the new kernel (and fail to start > X) before it's possible to remerge nvidia-drivers to suit the new kernel > - you can't do it in advance. > > On this ~amd64 multilib box, 260.19.29 has run trouble-free with gentoo- > sources 2.6.36-r5, 2.6.36-r6 and 2.6.37. Perhaps your -multilib USE flag > is causing trouble. > > In the past when I do a kernel upgrade, I have linked to the new kernel, emerged nvidia drivers then rebooted to the new kernel. It worked fine for me. I haven't done that in a while since I just built a new rig but I have done that in the past many times. Is this something new? Dale :-) :-)