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 1PeeM5-0006y5-G8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:58:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16A2EE0C71; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:56:28 +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 D1FAFE0C71 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so2796057gyh.40 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:56:27 -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=9u+zXHSnkhDFmXE4iZo0T3827GC+rHL3rSw4gKwLA9I=; b=TGdiD5ULLodu70d7JH161aZjLbIfFGHmuFhxyd95k3qgi/rliQ1q9b2VYIBNbaAiCv 24YlKpoQ9N0VXy3yU3/BiLoTVSVZN37EtsRe7QcpwDy+//8oKaV6O9dcRsGmQ5IrZtMK dyT3n++aedxGACxZ763D9368ap4zJGTMqUVqA= 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=fary3eCXOrOTFoInUceYEs7cEXvHma+TSTAUB4EfukqCqjtPRXMkvMvdtgjGHsXZZ2 6zClXlhTwkeG+zjQ68fNJcZpLIeh//kKhJzwpCpKnsZeFoYnht0COyw6QYamBhXOK0nt 1GF0jLSN6KBHSrdQE5fVh64t/BlX9mW1kGYro= Received: by 10.150.200.6 with SMTP id x6mr3723817ybf.183.1295229387209; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:56:27 -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 u5sm1837169yba.22.2011.01.16.17.56.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:56:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D33A1C8.3000801@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:56:24 -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> <4D32D400.8050409@gmail.com> <201101161516.49672.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201101161516.49672.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 631f0848-ed87-4b51-a021-6a08d269e3c8 X-Archives-Hash: b76be92281dcf92331ad477bab0971a0 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: > > >> The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make >> oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. >> > In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make > oldconfig, compiled the kernel and copied it to /boot. Still nvidia- > drivers won't compile, apparently because /usr/src/linux points to a > kernel other than the running one. > > I haven't rebooted yet but I did point the symlink to the new kernel. I can emerge nvidia here with no problems. It noticed it was pointing to the new kernel and installed them correctly. I'll reboot here in a bit and see what happens. Dale :-) :-)