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 -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
