Stupid nvidia. Stupid Kernel 2.4.25.

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

Okay. So I was bored this weekend, and downloaded the Gentoo 2.4.25 kernel sources. I ran make menuconfig, set up my config, and compiled. Then I installed the bzImage to /boot/bzImage.new, edited my GRUB, and rebooted.

I then recompiled my emu10k1 (SB!Live) driver, because ALSA was whining. Then I tried recompiling my nvidia driver, and it all went to pot.

For no apparent reason, after emerge -C nvidia-kernel; emerge -C nvidia-glx; emerge nvidia-glx; the driver still shats out on trying to load. I've tried manually compiling one from nvidia's web site, and that just hangs the kernel.

Any ideas how to fix this? X drops the " no screens available" error when it dies. I'd be more than happy to post any output you might ask.

Thanks.

EDIT: In case you thought I was an idiot, yes, I did make modules; make modules_install.
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Earthwings · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:52 am Post subject:

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

The unfortunate problem is that it gives an absurdly varying number of error messages.

The only one that remains constant is "No screens available". Half the time, it says it can't find nvidia when I try modprobe nvidia from the terminal.

I'll post a complete error log later today; I've rebooted into 2.4.20 and ldconfig'd my way back to a stable system, so it can get a few hours of Apache serving and a few other things done.
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infirit · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:17 am Post subject:

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

Already found that and pointed it to the .25 sources.
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