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stettler Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: nvidia-kernel, "could not determine your kernel..." |
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Hello all,
I wanted to take a look at transparent windows and sucessfully emerged xorg 6.8, transset and xcompmgr. Shadows are working, but no transpareny. So I though upgrading nvidia-kernel might be a good idea.
But ermerging nvidia fail with
Code: | # emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 2) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2 to /
x86
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run
x86
x86
>>> Unpacking source...
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* Could not determine your kernel version.
* Make sure that you have /usr/src/linux symlink.
* And that said kernel has been configured.
* You can also simply run the following command
* in the kernel referenced by /usr/src/linux:
* make include/linux/version.h
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!!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2 failed.
!!! Function check_KV, Line 253, Exitcode 0
!!! (no error message)
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For me everything seems ok:
Code: | # ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 3 02:12 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.6/
# ls -l /usr/src/linux/.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33820 Jul 19 23:52 /usr/src/linux/.config
# > ls -l /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 Jun 27 13:35 /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h
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What am I missing?
Thanks in advance!
stettler _________________ Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it, is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.
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madbiker Guru
Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 439 Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure you're using the 2.6.6 kernel? This happened to me when I was changing kernels and changed my symlink, but then forgot to recompile my kernel and reboot. |
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stettler Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I'm sure:
Code: | # uname -a
Linux kk2 2.6.6 #7 Mon Jul 19 23:53:10 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
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_________________ Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it, is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world. |
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Archangel1 Veteran
Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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You haven't done a make mrproper in /usr/src/linux or anything like that?
And have you tried running that make include/linux/version.h and retrying? |
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stettler Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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So far as I remember I haven't done a make mrproper (wouldn't that remove my /usr/src/linux/.config? It's there, see my first posting).
Code: | /usr/src/linux> make include/linux/version.h
make: Nothing to be done for `include/linux/version.h'.
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Hm, I don't understand the sense this make command... _________________ Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it, is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world. |
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4of11 n00b
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: Same problem |
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I'm having the same problem. My nvidia module stopped working after I emerged gnome 2.8 (I still don't know why that had an effect). I've been trying to install other versions of the module, but I get this message. But, if I remake my kernel, I get a different message, along the lines of "source directory dirty. Run make mrproper in /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-gentoo-r1." If I do that, I get the version error again.
During the course of installing gnome 2.8, I unmerged linux-headers due to a block and merged linux26-headers. Could that cause problems?
Did you succeed in fixing your problem? If so, how? |
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stettler Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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Switching from linux 2.6.6 to 2.6.8.1 solved the problem, emerging nvidia-kernel was no problem. On IRC I got an answer stating that you need at least linux 2.6.7.
Transparency is now working with 'normal' windows 'some time', xawtv with bttv module still has some bugs (black window depending on which window is focussed).
Interesting new look & feel, don't know what to think about it...
Best regards,
stettler _________________ Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it, is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world. |
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stettler Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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To my original problem: Transparency is working with nvidia-kernel 1.0.5336-r4 (current stable version). I was simply too stupid to realize that transset brings only transparency for the next window you click... _________________ Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it, is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world. |
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TheBohemian n00b
Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 33
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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stettler wrote: | Switching from linux 2.6.6 to 2.6.8.1 solved the problem, emerging nvidia-kernel was no problem. On IRC I got an answer stating that you need at least linux 2.6.7.
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I can confirm for x86 with a Geforce2 this works when switching to kernel of version 2.6.8 . However I have been using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r14 before and there compiling failed with a lot of undeclared symbols. |
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