nvidia problem

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

i just did emerge -uD world.......during the process my glibc was upgraded........after that i had some problem with loading drivers so i had to recompile my kernel which went off fine.........but then the nvidia-kernel stopped compiling

......it just goes off just after unpacking saying "failed to compile nvidia.ko, function src_compile failed"......what should i do....now i can't have an X......i have tried using nv driver but that didn't work out.

thnx in adv
Saurabh

scoon · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:15 am Post subject: Re: nvidia problem

thraxil · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 46 Location: nyc

i'm probably having the same problem as sobers_2002. when i try to emerge nvidia-kernel, i get:

psycovic · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 172

Try adding the ~x86 version into your package.keywords file and compiling that one. That's version 6111 as far as I know.

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

i am already using ( or used to rather

) 6111 driver......the error i get is something like this

scoon · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

okay i tried installing manually.....now this is what i got frm error log file

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

okay i tried that......found and removed all probs that i could think of.......had linux 2.4 headers installed.....unmerged them and installed the latest 2.6 headers......re-emerged glibc,gcc but no avail

it still gives the same kinds of errors....herez the exact things

scoon · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:53 am Post subject:

Hey there,

Since you keep getting different errors, that would lead me to believe that you are dealing with more than one problem. The first thing that I'd do would be to scan through dmesg output and look for and fix any errors in there. If there are none, then I'd completely unmerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-libs and try and re-emerge them again. If that still fails then I'd completely remove them and try and see what a revdep-rebuild would show. If it shows nothing wrong then I'd do an emerge -ev system and hope that makes everything work out.

scoon
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Hope this helps........

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

nothing seems to be working here :cry:

i have tried out the 2.6.8.1-mm4 also still the same probs

EDIT:-- i heard that love sources for mm3 fix this thing.....but i get innumerate "Already patched" lines when i try to patch that kernel....ny ideas on what i could be doin wrong??

scoon · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject:

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

Moved from Multimedia.

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! finally things get working with nitro5 for 2.6.8.1

i am sooooooooooo happy i can't tell you

RikBlankestijn · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

Good for you man, I'm still stuck

I've seen more threads about this problem and people keep mentioning nitro...can you tell me what it is? Google doesn't make things clear either.

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

it is one of the kernel patches like "love" which are out there........search gentoo forum with nitro5 and u will get to the exact page......luck!!

PS:- i dunno but moderator i guess this topic might be made sticky 'cauz lots more ppl are in for this problem

RikBlankestijn · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject:

Yet another kernel source? Interesting. Thanks!

Edit: Those sources solved it. Thanks!