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castor_fou
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 Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r2 : failed to load nvidia module |
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hi,
I'd like to share a very stupid mistake done today.
With the last kernel, a new option appeared : CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
It is a very nice tuning option, I set it to CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="_GRAM" and uname -a gives me a :
Linux gui 2.6.9-gentoo-r2_GRAM #1 SMP Wed Nov 3 15:07:20 CET 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
However my modules are now located in
| Code: | | /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r2_GRAM |
and my nvidia module is still under
I'm compiling a new kernel without LOCALVERSION... |
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fimbulvetr
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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You're doing the right thing by recompiling a new one:)
You could *try* to reemerge nvidia-kernel but I'm not sure if that would work.
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castor_fou
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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unfortunately, emerge nvidia-kernel doesn't read the value of CONFIG_LOCALVERSION to see where are modules.
We just have to wait a while... |
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dsd
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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its not a problem with the nvidia kernel ebuild, portage itself needs to be extended to read localversion. this has been done, localversion + external modules will suddenly start working with the next portage release 
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