Getting X Started On New Kernel (nvidia)

wyk · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 13

I would first like to say I just recently changed over to gentoo from slackware / redhat and I am quite amazed at how much I love this distribution.

Anyhow, I got everything running great, and just recently emerged from kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2, after figuring out how to get genkernel to know what to compile. So it compiles, I set my options in grub.conf, kernel boots perfectly, then comes the bad part. KDM tries to boot with no luck, so I do alt+Fsomething and bring up a console login. Try startx and it fails. Now, immidately I'm thinking I have to emerge a new nvidia-kernel with each linux kernel I change to, but I'm not sure. Looking for some helpful advice before I screw something up and I can't get to X from either kernel (grub is still configured to boot to both kernels).

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks,

Wyk.

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

yes try to emerge the kernel and glx again

"emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx"
"opengl-update nvidia"
startx

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mhodak · Veteran Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1218

I am just curious what exactly is "opengl-update nvidia" doing.
I have compiled several new kernels, and always did only "emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx" and things are always working fine. Is the
opengl-update step important?

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

just switches to the nvidia GLX.
but if you already done it, so should be ok

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