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 1PeQeK-00034M-Kv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:19:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7859E096C; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D8AE096A for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so2537894gyh.40 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:18:31 -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=I1KQBIe7KjvTjQXhcwtvieZq1fFftrP2hIBpbHyq3kE=; b=xTTEbVIjQw4IwbSjGCb5cTM/Lz9fWcfxm4n0WJ7UAkmbSPTypnWXMV2AjGRa7lnqaa /BLhgc1dkOjjy+LUbjM7yaOIOZK5vlD6vmU71ei+CAAZA1kjkqxX5SpJQSO7dkan5rEd VK58VItaavWnt4jZhwFCjSufkrsgGLCafND4E= 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=Dr7eddO3Eb08CSv6FX/NxP0Bi1nB3v+wLoCCZRM1tFPyl2IAWaSyr+1WfshiuPgykq ViSHCTsVyKDdEU17vsvSjl7oniPAKdqkABQPxw3DIezBA4z4ToDhMs1/Obw84rU1vLlz yqNV4qzeKH0woWoX6Vf1yg/UMDL5l5vEglsrA= Received: by 10.101.67.16 with SMTP id u16mr1826206ank.1.1295176711040; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:18:31 -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 b27sm4003922ana.8.2011.01.16.03.18.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:18:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D32D400.8050409@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:18:24 -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> <201101160918.06073.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4D32CD0D.3090606@gmail.com> <201101161106.30136.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201101161106.30136.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8b42035b-ed24-4061-ad84-c30182280ed7 X-Archives-Hash: cd39b48c24b5ada5ef48ed3641fb1f8e Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:48:45 Dale wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> 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? >> > It could easily be, yes. I remember being surprised once last year when > it happened, and since then it's been every time - enough that I've > written a tiny script to remerge drivers and vbox, then restart xdm. The > difference may be my ~amd64 system and consequent later versions of > nvidia-drivers. > > I have compiled a kernel for 2.6.37 but I have not booted it yet. I'll set the link to the new kernel, emerge nvidia and see what happens when I boot the new kernel. In the past, I was on x86 on my old rig. Maybe it is the arch that affects something. I'm not sure but will test later on today. Sort of in the middle of a download at the moment. Dale :-) :-)