Hi, Can you please post your 'emerge --info'? It feels like there are more to this than just a broken nvidia-module...
And mate, hang in there, we'll help you out! :) Best regards, Andreas Karlsson Sweden On Sunday 16 July 2006 23:48, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Thus spake Andreas Karlsson on Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:46:11PM CDT > > > Hi, > > > > Did you upgrade your kernel in the recent emerge? Do a 'ls -la /usr/src' > > to check that the symb-link is pointing to the current kernel. Otherwise > > a recompile of nvidia-kernel will produce a module for the wrong kernel > > version. > > Yes, I upgraded my kernel and my /usr/src/linux link is proper. I used the > stable version of nvidia-kernel and it didn't work. dmesg says this: > > nvidia: Unknown symbol remap_page_range > nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class > > So I upgraded to the unstable nvidia drivers, and ran 'eselect opengl set > nvidia' which allowed me to start the X server, at least, with the nvidia > driver running. > > Now gnome won't run, although I can start a kde session. I get the > following when I run startx as my normal user: > > Bonobo accessibility support initialized > GTK Accessibility Module initialized > > ** ERROR **: Accessibility app error: exception during registry activation > from id: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 > > Running revdep-rebuild shows a ton of broken lib references, but it's > trying to rebuild slotted packages which are no longer in the portage tree, > and the syntax it's feeding to emerge is broken and causing emerge to fail, > maybe due to recent changes in portage output. I don't know if this is the > problem, but it's a place to start. Upgrading gentoolkit helped with the > syntax issue, apparently. > > Quite frankly, I'm getting a bit gun-shy with gentoo. I know it produces a > very optimized set of executable components, but the last couple of times > I've tried to upgrade my desktop system it's been an all day job getting > things back to normal again. I just don't have that kind of time. > > Still pluggin' away, though :-) > > > On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:51, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > Can someone give me some guidance with regard to setting up > > > xorg-x11-7.0-r1 to work with my Gainward GeForce 4 video card? > > > Everything was working just fine with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 but after an > > > emerge, X refuses to run! I get the following complaint in my > > > Xorg.0.log file: > > > > > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! > > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > > > > > > I've tried installing (unstable) nvidia-drivers and > > > nvidia-legacy-drivers, but the kernel complains about an invlaid kernel > > > module. I get the same error if I use the (stable) nvidia-kernel > > > module. My current kernel version is 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. I can't go > > > backwards. Because xorg-x11 has been so thoroughly reorganized and > > > modularized I have something like 134 blockers (individual packages!) > > > which would have to be individually removed before I could back-version > > > to my previous xorg-x11. > > -- > Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key > FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at > 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> > http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | > > | (Pamela Jones) |
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