Re: nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24


nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24
\ John covici (19 Feb 2008)
. \ Sjakie (19 Feb 2008)
. . \ John covici (19 Feb 2008)
. . . \ Kevin (19 Feb 2008)

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Subject:	Re: nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Kevin
Date:	19 Feb 2008

On Feb 19, 2008 6:12 AM, John covici <covici> wrote:

> This was done already before the problem occurred.
>
> on Tuesday 02/19/2008 Sjakie(sjakie) wrote
> > I had this problem once with some other software. I fixed it by setting
> /usr/src/linux to the same directory as the kernel i was using. Before that
> change it was pointing to an older kernel version.
> >
> > You can do this with eselect kernel list and then eselect kernel set
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John covici <covici>
> > Sent: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 12:28
> > To: gentoo-user
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel
> 2.6.24
> >
> > Hi. I tried using kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 -- however the nvidia
> > drivers version 100.14.19 complains that it is unable to determine
> > the kernel version. I did some googling, but saw no solution to this
> > problem, but it seems others are having difficulties with this also.
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
> > --
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> > John Covici
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I had the same problem, but didn't research it to far. To fix it I just
used the masked version and it compiled fine. Been running for a couple
weeks and haven't noticed any issues with them either.