From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:28:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D33A969.7010100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D33A1C8.3000801@gmail.com>
Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-) :-)
>
OK. I just rebooted. When I booted, xdm started and the nvidia drivers
worked fine. I was still running the old kernel when I built the new
one. Peter, you got something weird going on with your system?
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 2:34 [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module covici
2011-01-16 2:48 ` Mark Knecht
2011-01-16 2:56 ` covici
2011-01-16 4:15 ` Mark Knecht
2011-01-16 3:18 ` Adam Carter
2011-01-16 3:25 ` covici
2011-01-16 9:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-16 10:48 ` Dale
2011-01-16 11:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-16 11:18 ` Dale
2011-01-16 12:13 ` Adam Carter
2011-01-16 15:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-17 1:56 ` Dale
2011-01-17 2:28 ` Dale [this message]
2011-01-17 10:40 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-17 2:50 ` covici
2011-01-17 3:05 ` Dale
2011-01-17 3:28 ` covici
2011-01-16 12:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-01-16 12:25 ` covici
2011-01-16 12:44 ` Adam Carter
2011-01-16 12:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-01-16 15:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-16 15:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-01-17 10:42 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-25 17:05 ` Bill Longman
2011-01-25 17:33 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-25 22:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-01-25 23:47 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-01-26 0:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-01-25 19:31 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-01-25 22:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-01-25 23:48 ` Peter Humphrey
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