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josephoenix
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 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:26 am Post subject: A tale of 2.6.7, an nVidia geforce 5700, and AMD64... |
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I have an AMD64 system with a 5700 card in it, running 2.6.7. The nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx ebuilds work without incident, but (there's always a but) when I try to modprobe it "modprobe nvidia" it responds with: "FATAL: Module nvidia not found."
Although I may be the smartest gentoo user in my neigborhood, that means relatively little here. 
Help would be much appreciated...
josephoenix
PS: I changed accept keywords from "amd64 ~amd64" to "amd64 ~amd64 ~x86" because the newest driver was a development ebuild on x86. Enlighten me to whether this is acceptable or the source of a problem itself.
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Shan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:56 am Post subject: Re: A tale of 2.6.7, an nVidia geforce 5700, and AMD64... |
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| josephoenix wrote: | I have an AMD64 system with a 5700 card in it, running 2.6.7. The nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx ebuilds work without incident, but (there's always a but) when I try to modprobe it "modprobe nvidia" it responds with: "FATAL: Module nvidia not found."
Although I may be the smartest gentoo user in my neigborhood, that means relatively little here.
Help would be much appreciated...
josephoenix
PS: I changed accept keywords from "amd64 ~amd64" to "amd64 ~amd64 ~x86" because the newest driver was a development ebuild on x86. Enlighten me to whether this is acceptable or the source of a problem itself. |
IF I'm not mistaken, Kernels >= 2.6 and AMD64 both need the ~ARCH version of the nvidia drivers. I know you said you changed your Accept Keywords but I think the way you've got it setup will still pull down the stable builds first. Just an idea.
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Maedhros
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You can't use the 32 bit drivers with a 64 bit system. You have to use the latest drivers that nvidia have released - the 1.0.5332-r2 version.
It's really quite annoying, especially as udev will only work properly with the 1.0.5336-r2 drivers.  What's also annoying is that according to this page, the newer drivers are available in 64-bit, for the IA64, they're just not available for the AMD64.
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