Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Glenn Enright wrote: Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult for others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked ;). As far as I understand, the binary driver itself is not patched. The patching concerns the way it is integrated into your system (e.g. symbols and certain function calls, of course kernel related stuff) -- and there are source files for that. That's what is being compiled by emerge. The problem with the function/symbol pci_find_class has occured before with an older version of nvidia-kernel and was patched successfully. So, I guess it's just a matter of time and patching experience. But because of the reasons Richard wrote/summarized, it's not looking very good :-/ Does the xorg nv driver do what you need? Fortunately yes. I can start X an do all 2D-things. For the time being I'll have to live with that. So, I guess my search for some help has come to a dead end. Thank you for all your suggestions and information. Let's hope for better Nvidia support in the future. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: you don't need 6629 in that case. You can go to 7174. I told you before: any other version (other than 6629) didn't compile or load. And one of the 7something was seriously unstable. So, I would have to go back to 6629. This one just needs a bit of patching. I was looking for some help in that direction. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Richard Fish wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated legacy graphics driver is planned for the near future. That one should match 1.0-8756. Sounds pretty bad and good at the same time. Still: isn't someone of the Gentoo-guys (experienced in patching) able to patch the old 6629 for the time being or do I simply underestimate the effort? Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Besides: ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/vanilla-sources/ [...] Wow! Couldn't have done that myself. there is A LOT after .15 - many of them with security fixes. I'm not gonna repeat myself (again). Thanks for the suggestion, but for two (already mentioned) reasons I'm not gonna go for that. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or load afterwards. Only one version (other than 6629, one of the 1.0.7...) did both successfully but crashed when starting X. If the problem is still there, I would try vanilla kernel. I'm not going to, since I believe I would be missing a lot of these gentoo-patches. Anyway to me it seems that the nvidia-kernel ebuild needs improvement (patching the stuff about remap_page_range and pci_find_class). Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Alexander Kirillov wrote: I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 Did you rebuild nvidia-glx and all the dependencies? The only dependency with nvidia-kernel seems to be virtual/modutils, which kind of pointed to sys-apps/module-init-tools. I reemerged that and tried the newest nvidia-kernel version. It builds, but the module fails to load. dmesg sais (and this is, where it get really great): NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro GPU installed in this system is NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA Legacy drivers. Please NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more NVRM: information. The 1.0-8756 NVIDIA driver will ignore NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe... NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! To me this means that I need the old module with the correct patches. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
Hi, I'm having a problem using nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5 after the my recent kernel-update from gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 to gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. The few things, that are compiled when emerging nvidia-kernel, compile successfully but emerge complains about missing symboles (remap_page_range and pci_find_class). Via Google I found out that nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-rX had similar problems with pci_find_class, which was fixed eventually (that function seems to have been renamed to pci_get_class). That one seems to be back along with a new friend (the function remap_page_range has been renamed to remap_pfn_range and expects a different number of parameters I think). During emerge the script conftest.sh from the nvidia-kernel-package should take care of at least remap_page_range, but calling this script fails. I found heavy differences between conftest.sh-scripts from the currend nvidia-kernel and from older versions. To me it seems, the patching in the current version is not done properly. Still I'm too unexperienced with patching in order to do it myself. Does anyone experience same problems or know about a solution to that? I tried all newer versions of nvidia-kernel. Some didn't compile or didn't load afterwards while one of them did both successfully but seriously crashed when starting X (luckily remote-login still worked). Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: And I built OpenOffice once, it ended up running slower than OpenOffice-bin... How come? I have noticed the same effect with Mozilla-software. At least I get the feeling that the binaries are a little faster -- I can't really say for sure. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
