Nvidia with linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r5

[IainCE]

I've just updated my kernel to kernel-2.6.7-gentoo-r5 and now my nvidia drivers don't work.
During boot, it says something along the lines of:
* Loading module "nvidia"
* Failed to load module "nvidia"

It worked earlier today when I was using 2.6.5 kernel so I think that's the problem.
Any ideas how to fix it?

Cheers.

[fatpiper]

Re-emerge nvidia-kernel, or better yet go to www.nvidia.com and download the linux drivers (it's the IA-32 ones), and install them yourself.

You may have to go in and edit modules.dep as well.

Just FYI, you always need to re-install the drivers when you change kernel.

Good luck!
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[Locke355]

I emerged the nvidia-kernel drivers, and had the same problem as a lot of others had, which is when the driver is loaded, it errors saying it is formatted wrong. I installed the 5336 drivers from ~x86, and that driver at least loaded, but unfortunately they seem incredibly bug ridden. When I exit X now, my monitor seems to lose video sync and I have to reboot.

Any ideas? I would like to keep the 2.6.7 kernel, but it seems that the only valid solution is to go back to 2.6.5 and run the 4496 drivers.

[fatpiper]

The error saying the formatting is wrong happened to me too when I installed the driver into 2.6.5 from the file on NVIDIA's site.

It doesn't do that because there is actually an incorrectly formatted driver, it does it because it's loading the wrong .ko file. Check which nvidia.ko file it's failing to load (modprobe nvidia's error message should tell you), and then cat /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep | grep nvidia.ko, it's possible you'll find two different files. If you do, get rid of the one that doesn't work, delete its entry from the modules.dep, ldconfig, and try again. It may work now.

My recommendation is to skip portage entirely for nvidia stuff. Just get the driver file from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html that page, and install it. Usually it compiles a custom kernel interface for you and works fine.

If that doesn't work, I'm using 2.6.5-mm5 and my Geforce is peachy
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[Sabbie]

I haven't even got so far of loading X in the 2.6.7 kernel (r1 here), when I start x it just hangs, now I just compiled my kernel with 8k stacks, so I'm going to check if that's helping...

And it did! Working great now..