The nvidia kernel module is *definitely* tied to kernel version, so
if you built the win4lin kernel from a different source tree than
the one you originally built, you will have to rebuild the module.
You can check for existance of the module as follows:
$ cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/video
$ ls -l
If the module exists in your current configuration, it should be located
here. Mine is name nvidia.o, and so to install it, I would run:
# modprobe nvidia
Someone with more knowledge of the kernel make files than me could
confirm this, but I also believe that if you perform a "make modules_install"
that it will replace your modules tree (/lib/modules/`uname -r`) with the
*new* tree created by "make modules." So even if you had built the
nvidia driver from the same sources before, it would no longer exist in
that directory.
If you can't find the module, try emerging nvidia-kernel again and post
the specific errors.....
On Sunday 16 March 2003 06:12 pm, richard terry wrote:
> Andrew, see answer below:
>
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 05:18 am, Andrew wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 01:14:37 +1100
> >
> > richard terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I think I've succeeded in building the win4lin Kernel (I use win4lin
> > > in Mandrake and have a licence, so I wanted to try it in Gentoo).
> > >
> > > However when I boot, the nvidia drivers, which I installed as per
> > > instructions on the gentoo web site and which work with the gentoo
> > > kernel, can't be found.
> > >
> > > I noticed a comment that one had to recompile these is one
> > > re-compiles the kernel, and I did, but though the emerge nvidia-glx
> > > seemed to work ok, I got compile errors with the emerge nvidia-kernel.
> > >
> > > Don't have the error messages here, but I can do it again if they are
> > > needed.
> > >
> > > Any generic advice?
> >
> > Whats the output when you "modprobe" your nvidia module?
> >
> > It's "NVdriver" with the 3xxx series, and "nvidia" with the 4xxx series.
>
> Athlon_gentoo root # modprobe NVDriver
> modprobe: Can't locate module NVDriver
>
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