Re: [proaudio] failed nvidia drivers.

[alex stone <compose59@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks fellas, for the tips. After a complete cleanout, and start
again, i have it working. It took a bit of finagling, but with your
assistance and advice, i'm up and running.

Arve, the module-rebuild tip was the final icing on the digital cake. Thanks.

Lucio, your build does work. It was my user error in putting the
ebuild somewhere i could install it from. (My first 3rd party ebuild
attempt.)


Alex.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have you done a module-rebuild after upgrading kernel and/or nvidia-drivers?
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:52 PM, alex stone <compose59@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Lucio,
>> It didn't work for me. The build process seemed to go ok, but i got
>> the usual nvidia fatal not found error when o rebooted, after doing
>> all the usual stuff, and i'm not sure i followed the 3rd party ebuild
>> thing correctly, so i can't say with certainty what the error might
>> be. (I'm only a user, not a coder.)
>>
>>
>> Thanks for trying to help out
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Lucio Asnaghi <kunitoki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I had to patch the nvidia drivers to compile them on 2.6.31-rt11 so i've
>>> uploaded an ebuild in my roxxorx overlay (search it in google code)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Lucio
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/ott/09, at 20:06, Vladimir Savic <vladimir.firefly.savic@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Works fine for me. AMD64 arch with nvidia 8600GT card.
>>>>
>>>> $ uname -a
>>>> Linux savichome 2.6.31-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Sep 21 01:54:34 CEST
>>>> 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ AuthenticAMD
>>>> GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> For simplicity sake, I'll attach patch file to this mail. Patch was
>>>> grabbed from nvnews nvidia forums. That means I'm not author of the same.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully someone can make ebuild since I haven't had a single crash for
>>>> days (weeks even).
>>>>
>>>> Vlada
>>>>
>>>> P.S. "2.6.31-gentoo" in uname output is misleading, but it is -rt11
>>>> kernel. I just haven't changed Makefile.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> alex stone wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A quick heads up for the powers to be in the overlay.
>>>>>
>>>>> Had a weekend of experimenting with a 2.6.31.1-rt11 vanilla kernel
>>>>> build, and as i've come to expect, the nvidia drivers ebuilds (all of
>>>>> them) failed miserably against this build. This time around, it seems
>>>>> to be something in the RT patch that messes the nvidia build up, but
>>>>> more importantly to us mere audio users, xf86-video-nv doesn't work
>>>>> either, and freezes the desktop. (And a quick google will reveal i'm
>>>>> not the only one defaulting to vesa at this stage.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've found a patch, that sadly didn't work for me, and more sadly, the
>>>>> latest overlay RT build didn't work with the latest nvidia drivers
>>>>> either.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm still on 2.6.24-rt for good reason it seems, but time is running out.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone is trying this particular combination, you have an uphill
>>>>> trek in front of you, so don't get discouraged if it doesn't work.
>>>>> You're not on your own.
>>>>>
>>>>> A final question. Could the overlay maintainers ask the portage chaps
>>>>> if they can have a look at the 190.xx nvidia-drivers series ebuilds,
>>>>> and ask on my behalf if they could consider fixing the ebuilds to
>>>>> satisfy an rt kernel build as well? (2.6.31 in particular)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've mailed them 3 times, and nobody seems to be home.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <nv-2.6.31-rt.patch.gz>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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