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 1PefQn-0006l8-U4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:06:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C05CFE0C15; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:05:34 +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 91E92E0C15 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so2814169gyh.40 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:05:34 -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=ENSkU4ANyZOOA+naTr0c+MXdR5rIkE+h9JVRk3locIE=; b=yAvu/jAO2Y5vOfJ+Tr04MlRNqaiDrPDRjkgS0OTPzGEJigoffy6D6ES79c6StWz+mp B2IFeQbOVLbGOaddqf+t2OP1Jz0uuOwxR8y20RQfKtH/cGRgxoaYxy41FDjew4gaaEVK iwJeIjOyMZjz5lHhoaI0LWiNlYs2VJLO2ehUw= 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=Q3uuL3Vmg10+HO58dmFryCu88FGgxQaR8E/n3TlLSo+jlWVkBmNVYTl/WvgbOQ6gkC O83IGLy427254p8VPqEArQy/ibNpz5q+VQznFU6mPK4aIOPKqx1o+hpH3uqT0AC6pf4B hwQqoWWlcoUYhuKZc6f/5Yzn6S+hpFxBR5qHA= Received: by 10.150.143.7 with SMTP id q7mr3656547ybd.211.1295233533756; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:05:33 -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 u5sm1873514yba.10.2011.01.16.19.05.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:05:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D33B1FB.6080708@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:05:31 -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> <25607.1295232611@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <25607.1295232611@ccs.covici.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dd2d5302-918c-428f-af80-d71ddc49a97e X-Archives-Hash: fbc2d0c25dec1a15749dff9a1172996c covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > 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. >> >> > Getting back to the original, I tried with 2.6.37 and it didn't work > either, but my 2.6.30 works fine with the same drivers. > > I'm using nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 on kernel 2.6.37-gentoo and it is working fine so far. It booted and X is working. Could there be something amiss in the kernel config? I ran into problems a while back. It was missing the option CONFIG_SYSVIPC in the kernel. You got that built in? Dale :-) :-)