[SOLVED] nVidia-Drivers compile error (2.6.20-rc6-mm3)

Phk · Last edited by Phk on Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:20 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi there everyone!

I've just upgraded to a 2.6.20 kernel. mm-sources-2.6.20-rc6-mm3

Even though it's a lot faster booting, and everything runs fine, i can't get no X :evil:

Here's the output of emerging nvidia-drivers:

seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

you need to make a patch with the following in it. make a overlay with the nvidia-drivers ebuild in /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/. move the required patches from portage to the overlay in the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files directory.

add "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia-drivers-2.6.20-rc6-mm2.patch' to the end of the src_unpack section to the ebuild in your overlay, digest and emerge the patched nvidia-drivers

Phk · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:47 am Post subject:

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

THANKS!

I'll try it soon xD

Edit: btw, is this info anywhere in the forums? I could not find it..
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Phk · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:19 am Post subject:

although the patch file you gave me is incorrect (don't ask me why, emerge stops because of directory problem (+p0 maybe?)), this works perfectly.

And this new kernel too

SOLVED.

Cheers!
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seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535719-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html

Phk · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject:

veeeeeeeeery nice.......

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MorningGlory · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

Pretty cool this is solved for you guys.
But I cant get it solved. Probably due to the fact that i'm a total overlay newb.
I'm using the same kernel and the latest ~x86 nVidia drivers.

This is what I've done so far:
I have made an overlay directory and copied the original nvidia ebuild and it's belongings to that directory.
I made a .patch that contained the above code and edited the original ebuild
After that I digested it.

So I had my hopes set it would work from that point.
But it didnt. It fails to apply the patch.

I've looked around in several topics and they all present the same option as above.
Finally I grew tired of searching the web with Links so I decided to ask you guys for some help.
What did I do wrong and what do I need to do?
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ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

MorningGlory · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

Nope, I didnt.
Since I only have a console I copied the thing by hand.
I'll try to play with the layout.

[edit]
Tried several things, didnt work out...
Do you have a working patch file?
Because if so, could you upload it to some webspace and post the URL?
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Phk · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject:

Hi there guys, sorry to answer late.

The problem you're having with the patch is...? You should emerge it from gnome-terminal or konsole or something, so that yo can copy-paste the errors to the forums.

Help comes pretty much more efficiently this way

However, you said you didn't copy paste.. .. did you typed it??

If so, was it in a windows OS? Notice the file format, open it with nano, try to save it, and nano will say "DOS Format" or "MAC Format" instead of only "Insert filename: "
This was my error when trying the patch...

I'm not on my linux box, but here, use this link to see where the patch came from:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535719-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-28.html

make sure your overlay its kind of
/usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/(the other patches)
/usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/new.patch (<--- our patch)
/usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-xxxxxxxx.ebuild (original build)
then edit the ebuild and add the "epatch" similar to the other that are there,
then do the "ebuild ..... digest" proccess and try again

Cheers
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MorningGlory · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

MorningGlory · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject:

Ok here are the contents of the files:

Phk · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject:

MorningGlory · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject:

Ok, awesome. Hope it works. Gonna try it

[Edit]
Posting from within Links now.
I tried your WriteOut option. However there was no DOS Format between parenthesis. I switched them around from DOS to MAC to nothing a bit but that didnt work either.
Looked at Nano Help and noticed that CTRL+M can also create newlines.
So I used that instead of pressing Enter.
Didnt work either

Play around with tabs, spaces, replacing tabs for spaces, the non-convert parameter for Nano. all didnt work.

Do you think it's possible that you upload or email me your patch file and I wget it or download it from my mail? Would that be worth a try? Or would that mess up the format as well?
I enabled viewing of my email address in my profi.

By the way, the new patchlog keeps yapping about line 3:

MorningGlory · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:27 am Post subject:

I thought a nice "bump" might do the trick.
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ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

MorningGlory · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject:

That was the trick I was looking for.
The module complies ok, but now X refuses to give me any output. Black screen

Perhaps I should drop all the fancy stuff and return to more stable sources.
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Phk · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject:

MorningGlory · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:51 am Post subject:

Mysphyt · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 17

Is this your first time using nvidia-drivers? If it is, try disabling framebuffer (by deleting the vga=whatever part of your kernel parameters in grub.conf). There's a known issue with fb on some cards with nvidia-drivers that just causes X to lock up.