Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:32:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You forgot to reboot to run the new kernel That shouldn't be necessary. You can install and compile a new kernel then re-emerge nvidia-drivers before rebooting. The drivers are built for the kernel linked from /usr/src/linux, not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 11 February 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: I wonder what's happening...Is there something that I could have missed? You forgot to reboot to run the new kernel  I did reboot...more than once. Made sure uname -a corresponded to the kernel in /boot/ and to the symlink

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
-Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:32 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found On Monday 11 February 2008, Marzan, Richard non

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
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,