> I followed the Gentoo nVidia guide pretty much to the letter > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml), but the NVIDIA kernel > module is failing. To quote my Xorg.0.log file: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! > > As you may guess from that line, I am unable to run an X server at all > with "nvidia" as my selected driver. I can run X "just fine" with > "nv" but it has some drawbacks that I would rather not live with. > > The only clue I've come up with is this: the kernel I have installed > is 2.6.13-r5, but portage tells me I have version 2.6.11-r2 of the
You need to install a newer version of the Nvidia driver. Nvidia kernel 1.0.6629 doesn't work with the 2.6.13 kernel. To use a newer version you can type: echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords You will be able to then install a newer version that will work with the 2.6.13 kernel. I gave up on the nvidia drivers this time because every new kernel release breaks the nvidia drivers.:( Nearly all of the opensource drivers have continued to work through the different kernel releases. GPL functions are the reasons. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
