From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EZUsY-0004hR-9k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:55:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA8Er4Kc005823; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:53:04 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA8EfI1H010398 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:41:18 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 12so530321nzp for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:41:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=S31iP5g82IhKZJdMRxbbi/Dq8Eds8Ekc+e06uPGaIQoc41f5klJ9G0T1OCpxCkzbnZdPR3foUKjnO1zW6ZW3Z8wFJGSlVnHuCIwYMxoyYB5JYzo7Q/AufYF1MW9KvN3E5B902HqvwWUXXFMGQSibCEDnP/7dLvh2b6Sw748n+4g= Received: by 10.65.235.11 with SMTP id m11mr6615661qbr; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.199.5 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:41:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7bef1f890511080641u32f6985eqd9e2a5a94b0ed5c2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 00:41:18 +1000 From: "Alan E. Davis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia In-Reply-To: <200511081408.23929.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4686_1169705.1131460878001" References: <20051107023737.GA6505@sympatico.ca> <200511070113.42242.nbensa@gmx.net> <200511071821.15690.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> <200511081408.23929.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: 0d677c34-6474-4dd0-a5e6-97a01db8d300 X-Archives-Hash: 2427a70cf2cdd0b02994765fcd8d6365 ------=_Part_4686_1169705.1131460878001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 piec= e > 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. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- ~/.signature ------=_Part_4686_1169705.1131460878001 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Don't know whether this is even relevant.  I was pulling my hair out trying to get the nvidia driver ("nvidia") working with kerne= l 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 t= o 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 Nov= ember 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/lo= cal.start
> >
> > /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh
> >
> > or
> >
> > mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
&g= t; > mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
>
> This doesn't work fo= r me.  If I have the nvidia FB compiled in, then nvidia
> m= odule fails to load long before=20 local.start seems to be called.
>

which is totally logical.
You can not have two absolutly different drivers fight over the same p= iece of
hardware. AFAIR it is even part of the README.

But some p= eople choose not to read it or think, but complain instead of it.
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