[mythtv-users] Help! nvidia

[G Venkataraman]

On 10/31/07, Norm Dugas <normdugas at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> Staffan Pettersson wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Nvidia gives me headaches! i cant seem to build the driver correct.
> >
> > My girlfriend went away for a couple of days and so i decided to buy
> > som new parts for my mythtv system. My system consist of a backend
> > server running an old pentium 4 processor and my new frontend is a
> > core 2 duo system running in a diskless setup. Both the kernel on the
> > backend and frontend are the same but the new machine is build with
> > the core2 kernel option.
> >
> > Every time i try to build and insert the module, dmesg gives me this:
> >
> > nvidia: version magic '2.6.22-gentoo-r9 SMP mod_unload PENTIUM4
> > 4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.22-gentoo-r9 SMP mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS '
> >
> > Please help!
> >
> Looks like you've compiled the driver against a different kernel
> source.  How do you build your kernel?  Here's how I do it:
> - list and select the kernel
> # eselect kernel list
> Available kernel symlink targets:
>   [1]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2
>   [2]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r3
>   [3]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r4
>   [4]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r5
>   [5]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r6
>   [6]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r7
>   [7]   linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 *
>   [8]   linux-2.6.23-gentoo
> # eselect kernel set 8   <---This will ser the symlink to  2.6.26
>
> - build a new kernel
> # genkernel all   <--- builds the kernel, I usually use genkernel
> --menuconfig all to select wanted drivers and remove unwanted drivers
>
> - rebuild the modules, list them first
> # module-rebuild list
> ** Packages which I will emerge are:
>         =media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25
>         =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.09
> # module-rebuild rebuild
>
> Make sure your kernel is in grub, then reboot.  That's how I do it since
> the only time I rebuild the modules is after I build a new kernel.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Norm
>

Also, if you haven't already done so already, the following line needs to be
added to /etc/make.conf

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"

-=Venkat=-
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