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johnio
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 Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:05 pm Post subject: nvidia drivers for 2.5 kernel |
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The newest nvidia-kernel version does not even compile on the newest 2.5 kernel.
I have heard there are patches out there but I have not gotten any of them to work. |
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Lowspirit
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: Re: nvidia drivers for 2.5 kernel |
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| johnio wrote: | The newest nvidia-kernel version does not even compile on the newest 2.5 kernel.
I have heard there are patches out there but I have not gotten any of them to work. |
The patches are integrated in the .ebuild from the portage tree, it checks wheter you run 2.4 or 2.5 (even if you run 2.5.54 or above) and applies patches accordingly.
I have had both running flawless on 2.5.59 (aswell as .58).
Just make sure you /usr/src/linux symlink points to your kernel source directory so it can detect kernel version, and when loading it on 2.5 kernel I have to "insmod /lib/modules/2.5.59-mm6/video/NVdriver" (or in your case nvidia.so or just plain nvidia) rather then modprobe as before, don't know how much additional work I'm giving myself by doing it this way, modprobe might work OK again but so does insmod.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject: Re: nvidia drivers for 2.5 kernel |
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| Lowspirit wrote: |
Just make sure you /usr/src/linux symlink points to your kernel source directory so it can detect kernel version, and when loading it on 2.5 kernel I have to "insmod /lib/modules/2.5.59-mm6/video/NVdriver" (or in your case nvidia.so or just plain nvidia) rather then modprobe as before, don't know how much additional work I'm giving myself by doing it this way, modprobe might work OK again but so does insmod. |
so you're using the old nvidia driver with 2.5? |
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johnio
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:55 am Post subject: Thank You |
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That fixed it.
I had to change the "linux" symlink and be running 2.5 at the same time.
This is great. Even though I do not have preempt on, 2.5 feels much more responsive. Just starting programs and accessing the hardrive is faster. The only other problem I have is that my mouse wheel does not seem work anymore. |
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Twist
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 6:54 am Post subject: |
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It might be faster because of general disk access - a while back in the 2.5 tree most file systems got a (supposedly) better block allocator. Would cover at least ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS
2.5 doesn't seem to make much difference for me, and it's finicky about some of my more esoteric hardware. I'm only running it on one machine as a result, but so far that machine has been stable.
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NorthGoingZax
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:07 am Post subject: Still can't get Nvidia to work with 2.5 |
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I followed the above instructions with the syblink and re-emerging nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel, but when I tried to do the insmod, I got a QM-MODULES doesn't exist type of error ( I'm typing this on lynx, so I can't go back to look at the exact words).
Please help !!!! |
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NorthGoingZax
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:50 am Post subject: |
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The message is:
QM_MODULES: Function not implemented |
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CoronaLover
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| emerge module-init-tools |
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pjp
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Moved from Multimedia.
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cluster2600
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject: module-init-tools |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | Moved from Multimedia. |
hello i have
a problem i have tried the emerge module-init-tools command and it says to
me that it needs some dependencies that are masked
please help
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Twist
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem, and ended up just building them manually from original source (which was later than the ebuild at the time anyway). Couldn't find module-init-tools in in the mask file, and ACCEPT="~x86" didn't work either.
It's actually quite a pain to go from 2.4 to 2.5 because of this, caveat emptor.
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