Compilation of Nvidia drivers fail

[rsnfunky]

Dear All,

I am trying to emerge the Nvidia drivers (71.86.01) for my card (TNT2).

It fails giving the following error

[krinn]

checked your headers are there ?

[rsnfunky]

Yes the headers and kernel-source is there.

[ksp7498]

I'm pretty sure that the current sets of nvidia drivers do not work with kernel 2.6.25, what kernel version are you running?
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[Evildad]

Had a similar problem with nvidia-drivers today. Only the Version 169.12 compiled and worked for me

[rsnfunky]

I am using 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 kernel. The agp card is nvidia TNT2, that works only with 71.xx drivers. Please tell me what to do?

[AllenJB]

What is the output of the following commands:
emerge --info
ls -ld /usr/src/*

[kernelOfTruth]

you aren't using hardened-compiler, are you?

in that case switch from

[petty123]

Try:

[energyman76b]

yeah, don't use the installer.

Always use the ebuilds.
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[petty123]

[energyman76b]

it is not about 'hate'.

In the past the installer liked to 'forget' files - not good.
Also, if you use the installer and later ebuilds, you will get version mismatches, which lead to all kind of problems.
And as a last point, in the past, a lot of packages did not compile against the nvidia libGL libs. Set opengl to x11 with eselect, emerge, set back, worked around that. If you use the installer you loose that.

You see, there are good reasons not to use the installer. Ever.
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[petty123]

[energyman76b]

solution is a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org

EDIT:
first read this:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186490
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I identify as a dirty penismensch.

[petty123]

[energyman76b]

the installer comes without any patches at all. So no, it is not the right thing to do.

You can lol as much as you want. It just makes you look bad.
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I identify as a dirty penismensch.

[petty123]

[energyman76b]

[petty123]

I'm so sick of BS-ers like you, polluting various forums, writing over a thousand messages full of hot air, pretending to know everything and having an answer for everybody.

In fact all you do is to waste everybody's time and bandwidth.

From now on, please spare me of your ridiculous comments. I'm not interested!

[energyman76b]

[i92guboj]

This is getting nowhere. Some other more experienced moderator can open it if needed. for now I lock it.

Personal affairs should stay away of the thread.

Besides that. petty123: what you suggest is completely unsupported, and you shouldn't be suggesting that to a newbie without at least a warning. You don't understand the serious implications that have had in the past using that installer instead of the ebuilds. If something breaks in long term, it will take much more to solve it than it would take to wait for a revised ebuild, becase, in first place, no one will know where the problem came from.

If a given ebuild does not work, the correct procedure is to report it.

You are free to do whatever you want, but if you do things on your own, you got to keep the pieces.

rsnfunky: Feel free to open a new thread if you need it. This one is now useless.