On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against
each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and installs a
kernel driver into /lib/modules/<kernel version>)
It's a bit more obfuscated than that. Maybe nvidia-drivers work
different, but ati-drivers will build against /usr/src/linux but install
the actual modules in /lib/modules/running_kernel. If /usr/src/linux
doesn't point to the running kernel, the modules will be installed in
the wrong place.
That is just so mind-bogglingly absurdly stupid I doubt if ATI should even be
allowed near a computer....
Compiling code never depends on something running, it only depends on things
being present that can be linked against.
Thanks for reminding me why I insist on NVidia GPUs, I'd forgotten.
This isn't ATI's installer. It's the ebuild that does this.
