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 runn

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 t

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 Februa

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 a