Am Sat, 03 Dec 2016 08:46:34 -0600 schrieb Corbin Bird <[email protected]>:
> On 12/03/2016 03:23 AM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:00:58 +0100 > > schrieb massi ppp <[email protected]>: > > > >> hello > >> > >> i' m try to install nvidia-drivers latest on gentoo 4.8.11 gcc > >> compiler 5.4. > >> > >> i've compiled kernell with genkernell, the driver has compiled, but > >> not work because kernel conflict, i recompiled the same kernel > >> following the istruction on handbook, but when i try to emerge > >> nvidia driver portage fail to compile. > >> > >> i try also to find the problem to add or remove graphics and > >> firmware correlated features by menuconfig, and recompliling > >> kernel. > >> > >> the result is: > >> the module nvidia.ko missing some value: > >> > >> lib/modules/4.8.11-gentoo/video.ko needs unknown symbol: > > Maybe you are stripping unneeded symbols? Try to recompile the > > kernel without this option first. > > > > Curiosity : At one point the ( x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ) package > was reporting during build, kernels higher than 4.4 were not > supported ( nvidia's policy ). Has that changed? According to portage git changes: Yes. And it looks like the warning is no longer reported for 4.8 as it works for me - no warning reported and no user patches applied to kernel. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.

