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firmadankt
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 Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject: nvidia - vanilla works - gentoo not |
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hello,
it's the first time I installes gentoo. I did it stage1, and compiles two kernels. One vanilla 2.4.24 with the default-options (just the ones in the gentoo installation-howto), and a v2.4.25-gentoo-r2 , which I configured so, that it works best with my System (I guessed so). After emerging xfree, wdm, nvidia-kernel and nvidia glx, the gentoo-kernel didn't start wdm, but the vanilla kernel did it.
Can anyone help me please? Are there any options, which didn't work with the nvidia-kernel?? |
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firmadankt
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Before I forget,
I have a geforce 2 mx-400 on an athlon XP 1800+.
And I didn't choose any framebuffer options. |
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li1_getoo
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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everytime u recompile ur kernel u need to reemerge nvidia-kernel  |
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firmadankt
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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hmmm...
I think this isn the problem, 'cause Ifirst compiled the kernels (both) and teh I emerged nvidia-kernel, etc. (I emerged it running on the gentoo-kernel, and it works on the vanilla kernel) |
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Rabbitt
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| firmadankt wrote: | hmmm...
I think this isn the problem, 'cause Ifirst compiled the kernels (both) and teh I emerged nvidia-kernel, etc. (I emerged it running on the gentoo-kernel, and it works on the vanilla kernel) |
Well, based on your above response, you're wrong - it is the problem. If you emerged it after compiling both kernels, then you actually only compiled it against one of your kernels. As the previous post mentioned - you have to compile it against each kernel that you want to use it with.
For future reference, unless you have tried a suggestion, don't discount it as a possible solution.
Now, the way in which you can compile it against kernel A when it is already compiled and working against kernel B is to do the following:
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# ln -nsf /usr/src/`ls /usr/src | egrep -v '(\`readlink /usr/src/linux\`|linux)'` /usr/src/linux
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Note: The above line will only work if you only have the two kernel source directories and the one symbolic link (/usr/src/linux). It changes the symlink (/usr/src/linux) so that it points to whatever your other kernel source directory is. So if it was pointing at the vanilla one, it willn now point at your gentoo one. Do that and then do another normal emerge of the nvidia-kernel driver (don't unmerge), and you should be fine.
However, I would suggest just sticking with one kernel anyway - especially if you don't understand how this all works yet.
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