Hi,
5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia
driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had
to roll back to my old nv driver.
Best regards,
Evgeniy B.
Dale wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely
> gentoo-sources-2.6.29. It seems the drivers won't build against that
> kernel or the drivers that do build won't let X come up. How do I find
> out what drivers are compatible with what kernels and my old card?
> Currently, I am using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 with
> gentoo-sources-2.6.23-gentoo-r8 which are quite old. From my google
> search it seems that is the last version that works with the old video card.
>
> The drivers I am currently using works fine for me with my old kernel.
> It just doesn't build against the newer kernel or it fails to let the
> GUI come up. Any magic tricks? Anybody with a 2.6.29 kernel and a
> FX-5200 card care to share what version of drivers they are using? ;-)
>
> I think this is the error log for trying to build the current video
> drivers against the newer kernel:
>
>> INFO: setup
>> Determining the location of the kernel source code
>> Found kernel source directory:
>> /usr/src/linux
>> Found sources for kernel version:
>> 2.6.29-gentoo
>> Checking for MTRR support ...
>> Checking for Paravirtualized guest support ...
>>
>> INFO: unpack
>> Applying NVIDIA_glx-defines.patch ...
>> Applying NVIDIA_glx-glheader.patch ...
>> Applying NVIDIA_i2c-hwmon.patch ...
>> Converting NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg0/usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild
>> to use M= instead of SUBDIRS= ...
>>
>> INFO: compile
>> Preparing nvidia module
>>
>> ERROR: compile
>>
>> ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 failed.
>> Call stack:
>> ebuild.sh, line 48: Called src_compile
>> environment, line 3695: Called linux-mod_src_compile
>> environment, line 2711: Called die
>> The specific snippet of code:
>> eval "emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
>> CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}-
>> LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES}
>> ${BUILD_PARAMS}
>> ${BUILD_TARGETS} " || die "Unable to emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
>> CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES}
>> ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}";
>> The die message:
>> Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
>> CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1
>> SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/usr/src/linux
>> HOST_CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module
>>
>> If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack
>> if relevant.
>> A complete build log is located at
>> '/var/log/portage/elog/x11-drivers:nvidia-drivers-173.14.09:20090331-205939.log'.
>> The ebuild environment file is located at
>> '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09/temp/environment'.
>>
>>
>
> I just want to have my GUI and a newer kernel please. :-)
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
