Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Csányi András
Hi Collen! What type of nvidia-card have you? I have older card and this works only (or older) this version of nvidia-drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 nvidia card (lspci output): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] András ps.: sorry my

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Csányi András wrote: Hi Collen! What type of nvidia-card have you? I have older card and this works only (or older) this version of nvidia-drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 nvidia card (lspci output): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Colleen Beamer: Okay, I just recompiled the kernel using 2.6.21-r4. All the same selections in make menuconfig. The *only* difference was that the xserver wasn't running in the background when I compiled the nvidia-drivers. This is surprising. Everytime I have forgotten to shut

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:00:19 -0600, darren kirby wrote: This is surprising. Everytime I have forgotten to shut down the X server the nVidia installer detects it running and refuses to continue... The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with Portage. IMO, this is A

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Denis
On 8/9/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with Portage. IMO, this is A Good Thing, you can install and compile a kernel update then emerge nvidia-drivers to have the drivers available when you boot into your new

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:03:45 -0400, Denis wrote: Oh I never thought about that. So you need just the new kernel's sources and not necessarily having the new kernel *running* when you emerge nvidia-drivers for the new kernel? That's right. I have a short script that copies the running kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 19:03 schrieb Denis: On 8/9/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with Portage. IMO, this is A Good Thing, you can install and compile a kernel update then emerge nvidia-drivers to have the

[gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, rant I hate freakin' nvidia!!! /rant Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I'm an ATI girl and I've never encountered the problems that I have with this damn laptop and it's nvidia card. Heck, I even got X working just fine when I took the hard drive out of my old computer and put

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' This is not relate to nvidia. It would have happened the same with your ATI board. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Colleen Beamer wrote: I did an update world yesterday. One of the packages that was updated was nvidia-drivers to version 100.14.09. I've been having lots of issues using gcc 4.x to compile nvidia-drivers. I usually use gcc-config to switch to

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' This is not relate to nvidia. It would have happened the same with

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, SNIP I have no idea how to resolve this. I wish I had never upgraded (did I say that already? :-P ) and I want my laptop back! ;-( Help would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Colleen Just an idea but how about something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:37 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' This sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Denis
And I still think nvidia cards are crap! What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT Nvidia cards under Linux and did not have a single issue with them. When I update the nvidia driver, I generally prefer to do the following: 1. Shut down X and remove xdm from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:37 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
James Ausmus wrote: On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match'

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: And I still think nvidia cards are crap! What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT Nvidia cards under Linux and did not have a single issue with them. When I update the nvidia driver, I generally prefer to do the following: 1. Shut down X and remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Denis
I did everything that the nvdia How To said - to the letter. :-) Funny I did the same and never had any hiccups. ha. The one time I got the error you got after updating the drivers was when I forgot to remove the old running module and insert the new one before starting X. Reading what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: And I still think nvidia cards are crap! It's a subjective point of view. I've not had the frustrations with ATI that I've had with nvidia. But to each his own, right? What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT Nvidia cards under Linux and did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Denis
Denis wrote: And I still think nvidia cards are crap! First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me in the future replies! ;) Maybe it was some incompatibility with the 2.6.21-r4 kernel (I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me in the future replies! ;) No, Denis *did not* write it Colleen did and I still think so, but no matter! ;-) Maybe it was some