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 1N4LUE-0005kz-BW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 326A4E0ABC; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F92FE0ABC for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1596731F for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.151 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.151 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.552, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kAactRY+NVzA for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5597671CA for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N4LU0-00074B-Vy for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:27:36 +0100 Received: from athedsl-374302.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.14.28]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:27:36 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-374302.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:27:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:27:17 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <87hbtfo68r.fsf@newsguy.com> <200910312118.22975.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200910312307.19397.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-374302.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091019 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <200910312307.19397.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f5f965da-bce5-4703-86e3-9b9a33f577d0 X-Archives-Hash: ee22a69a330e94d19a02a7d0dcf9aaa9 On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3 >>> installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against >>> each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and installs a >>> kernel driver into /lib/modules/) >> >> It's a bit more obfuscated than that. Maybe nvidia-drivers work >> different, but ati-drivers will build against /usr/src/linux but install >> the actual modules in /lib/modules/running_kernel. If /usr/src/linux >> doesn't point to the running kernel, the modules will be installed in >> the wrong place. > > > That is just so mind-bogglingly absurdly stupid I doubt if ATI should even be > allowed near a computer.... > > Compiling code never depends on something running, it only depends on things > being present that can be linked against. > > Thanks for reminding me why I insist on NVidia GPUs, I'd forgotten. This isn't ATI's installer. It's the ebuild that does this.