Nvidia Driver and Kernel Rebuilds

5th_Horseman · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 48

Statement: When I do a "genkernel --menuconfig all" I also have to do a unmerge and re-emerge my nvidia drivers

Question: Am I doing something wrong in my build process or is there something else that I should be doing?

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I am using gentoo-dev-sources on an AMD64 system.

When the system reboots I get an error from XORG that the NVIDIA driver could not be loaded..

I do a modprobe -l | grep nvidia and it is there. (It loads from the modules.autoload.d/(kernelversion)

rmh3093 · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject:

modprobe -l does not mean its loaded, thats a list of all modules

lsmod shows if its loaded, is it?
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5th_Horseman · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 48

ahh, well I am rebuilding my kernel as we speak so I'll have an answer very soon.

Cadorna · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject:

if you're building a new kernel, then you have to reemerge nvidia-kernel because it has to be reinstalled in the new kernel directories under /lib/modules/'uname -r'/video (besides I think it's also need to be recompiled with the new kernel source, so you can't just copy the video directory to your new kernel directory)

this happens with all the propietary drivers, not only nvidia ones

Frodg · l33t Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 761

You will need to recreate the symlink to your new kernel (/usr/src/linux), then reemerge nvidia so it compiles against the new kernel....
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Cadorna · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:

[quote="Frodg"]You will need to recreate the symlink to your new kernel (/usr/src/linux), then reemerge nvidia so it compiles against the new kernel....[/quote]

I've assumed he have done that already, becuase he executes the command genkernel --menuconfig all, else it would be something like genkernel --kerneldir=/usr/src/yourkernel --menuconfig all, adn then yes, as you said, he would have to recreate the symlink to /usr/src/linux