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ozak
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Joined: 02 Jan 2004
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Location: USA
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 Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:54 am Post subject: nvidia driver issue. |
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Ok, so here's the issue, i'm trying to get my nvidia drivers working again.
They were working before, but didnt have glx working or somthing like that.
About a day ago I did emerge -u system and updated my system and such, and such.
I'm on kernel
2.4.20-gaming-r3
I go to install the drivers, and it says something about unresolved symbols, but finishes, but now.
When I run modprobe nvidia i got
root@deadhatemachine mindrot # modprobe nvidia
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol preempt_schedule_R707f93dd
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o:
Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for
assistance, only they can help you.
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o: insmod nvidia failed
any help? hopefully its nothing something in the kernel becuase I can't recompile due to the fact that I have gcc 3.3.2 and aparently it doesnt liek compleing 2.4 kernels.
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olav
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Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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Location: Norway
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:16 am Post subject: Re: nvidia driver issue. |
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hopefully its nothing something in the kernel becuase I can't recompile due to the fact that I have gcc 3.3.2 and aparently it doesnt liek compleing 2.4 kernels.
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Why do you use GCC 3.3.2 if you use 2.4 kernels then? Is the kernel you're using the same as before the upgrade? |
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ozak
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, they are the same kernel.
I'm working getting kernel 2.6.0 functioning, but untill then i wanted to know why the drivers wern't working. |
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mike4148
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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You sound like far too much of a newbie to be using unstable stuff  .
The error has something to do with you compiling the nvidia driver for a kernel you're not running. Make sure you installed your kernel correctly and that you're running it when doing the emerge. Don't bother messing with 2.6 if you can't even get 2.4 to work. Run a stable gcc, or suffer problems like this forever. |
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ozak
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Turns out it was the kernel, downgraded to gcc 3.2.3.
And btw, I've been using linux since redhat 2.somthing, been useing slack for about 3 years now. I figured gcc would do that, but I had been planing on switching to 2.6.0 (like I had done on slack 9.1).
I'm staying on 2.4 now cuase it has more customization for my processor.
I'm not THAT much of a n00b, I just wanted to know if anyone knew what the error was becuase google wasn't coming up with anything helpfull. |
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