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 1Peere-0002MD-CM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:30:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC1F0E0BC4; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABE7E0BC4 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb10 with SMTP id 10so2808400gwb.40 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:29:01 -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=g1tXPsKQcZuR98YPQ/R81NE/fw0TOt7ySVOucH5o8Zg=; b=yGzB8ZmP/WuCnJwJveI/R6de0XKoe8nLME/nmP7+UZIlBUzeE2Y3IAYIGbI74195ia 462CzUu4FvczcmWWj7+2YYO8EAAIG+GNGfa0SAqgGmt8HW/OGBEV13YuLJNuWy7y0YNt qIY/slsaNi31Qd39msTD+JsUZviPCCQU7irYk= 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=SoaRVyb8zmbcBJWa1sW08MtsD6ETaFzGt0QJwOHM/vQtZ+QblIhUsrNMSsgtJf0hIy 04jOw1Y3TfPxfZ80N9sF7+5oemMuMdJwta6XyZTXmXFo9yjhclw6XdsEP/9jFmU8cX5H eDmZBMJgKi7IY1IFpbJYEduiDrTjvCUdCEj/Y= Received: by 10.150.58.5 with SMTP id g5mr3791536yba.216.1295231340555; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:29:00 -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 q4sm1856893ybe.0.2011.01.16.18.28.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:28:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D33A969.7010100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:28:57 -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> <4D33A1C8.3000801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D33A1C8.3000801@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f0c258d-580c-4101-b926-8962975bf51d X-Archives-Hash: 84c3dd5fadb75b3a629ca3e9220f8846 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 :-) :-)