> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because
> kernel tree not found
>
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
> > I recently read an article at planet.gentoo.org about a 2 serious
> > bugs in the kernel that could lead to someone crashing or rooting a
> > system with linux kernels prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r2. So
being
> > the paranoid one that I am, I unmasked this ebuild and installed it.
> > I performed a `make oldconfig` and everything went well. I expected
> > Alsa-drivers and nvidia-drivers to be broken after the upgrade of
the
> > kernel version. I symbolically linked "linux" to the new 2.6.24-r2
> > kernel source tree. Then, I proceed to re-emerge nvidia-drivers and
> > it states that it, for some odd reason, it cannot find the kernel
> > source. Moreover, it cannot even ascertain which system my kernel is
> > built for i686, Kryptonite 8 or K8 (Athlon). I tried changing
> > versions of the nvidia-drivers just incase the current stable one
was
> > not compatible with the latest gentoo-sources package and the
problem
> > remained the same. I wonder what's happening...Is there something
> > that I could have missed?
>
> You forgot to reboot to run the new kernel
>
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
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I did reboot...more than once. Made sure uname -a corresponded to the
kernel in /boot/ and to the symlink in /usr/src/
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