Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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Don't know whether this is even relevant. I was pulling my hair out trying
to get the nvidia driver ("nvidia") working with kernel 2.6.12 for about
three weeks. It worked ok with nv, but with nvidia it gave the same message
you got. I was using the same nvidia-kernel version you are. I moved to
kernel 2.6.13, and decided to run ~amd64 (what the heck). Nvidia kernel v.
7676 installed neatly and worked.

I don't recommend it, necessarily. It worked for me, but there seem to be
many variables that can cause that message.

Alan

On 11/8/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 00:21, David Corbin wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:13 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > > Philip Webb wrote:
> > > > Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ?
> > >
> > > Yup. In /etc/conf.d/local.start
> > >
> > > /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
> > > mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
> >
> > This doesn't work for me. If I have the nvidia FB compiled in, then
> nvidia
> > module fails to load long before local.start seems to be called.
> >
>
> which is totally logical.
>
> You can not have two absolutly different drivers fight over the same piece
> of
> hardware. AFAIR it is even part of the README.
>
> But some people choose not to read it or think, but complain instead of
> it.
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