Nvidia Drivers Re-Emerge?

Kestrell Kestrell · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:12 am Post subject: Nvidia Drivers Re-Emerge?

Hello,
I have found that after I modify my kernel, occasionally the nvidia module fails to load on reboot and I have to re-emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. After some searching on the forums it appears that this is sometimes the case. Is this the case? Or is something wrong with my setup?
Thanks!

hw-tph · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:25 am Post subject:

When you build the nvidia driver module it will use your current kernel source (in /usr/src/linux) to compile against. When you update your kernel or recompile the same version it will break in 9 cases out of 10. It is to be expected. Plus, when you have a new name for your kernel the directory the kernel searches for modules will change, i.e. if you run 2.6.7 vanilla and upgrade to 2.8.7-ck7, the new directory for modules will be /lib/modules/2.6.7-ck7, when the old directory - where the nvidia module was located - would still be /lib/modules/2.6.7...so it's not so surprising that the kernel can't find the module. It is simply not where the kernel expects all modules to be.

Håkan

hw-tph · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:28 am Post subject:

This goes for any other modules that are not in the kernel - cdemu, vmware, and so on. You will have to re-emerge them every time you update or change your kernel. If you use the external (not in the kernel source) Alsa drivers you will have to emerge them too.

Håk

Kestrell Kestrell · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:12 am Post subject:

Ok, thanks. Is this what most people do? Re-emerge all of their modules, or is their a better way to do it?