Newly installed system: Dell GX240 with nVidia GeForece3 Ti 200 hooked to a Dell 2000FP. Installed, as usual, upgrade gcc to 3.4.4, removed old gcc. Rebuilt kernel and all modules. Then emerged for the first time ever nvidia-{kernel, glx, settings}. Following <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml> try modprobe nvidia, but get "FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2/video/nvidia.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg). dmesg gives: nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol copy_from_user nvidia: Unknown symbol copy_from_user nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol strncpy_from_user nvidia: Unknown symbol strncpy_from_user Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.modprobe nvidia Actual Results: I get the error message described above under "details." Expected Results: Loaded nvidia module Looking through the numerous bug reports on nvidia, the closest hits seemed to be Bug 95197 and 70716. I can use module "nv" in xorg.conf instead, but I only get a small portion of my entire screen. And fonts don't look as good as on the most recent gentoo 2005.1-r1 livecd (which handles this display perfectly). Going on a tip on one of the other bug reports, I tried: ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/video it gave only a directory called "backlight". Is this a case of the driver not ending up in the right location? Any work arounds you can provide would be greatly appreciated. This was an old RH9 machine which I use everyday at work. It would be great to move on to a more up-and-with-it :-) Gentoo environment! Best regards /Mike
(In reply to comment #0) > I can use module "nv" in xorg.conf instead, but I only get a small portion of my > entire screen. And fonts don't look as good as on the most recent gentoo > 2005.1-r1 livecd (which handles this display perfectly). I added the correct resolutions to the wrong file. Now that I fixed that, I have the whole screen to work with. That much is better, anyway.
Can you get a log from nvidia-kernel emerge please?
Created attachment 74286 [details] emerge.log showing nvidia packages being emerged This is an excerpt from /var/log/emerge.log. These logs don't contain all the messages received during the emerge, so if you want me to pipe the emerge out to a file (emerge nvidia-glx > emerge_out) let me know.
Created attachment 74889 [details] full-detailed emerge plus extra info This shows the problem in full with all the details of the emerge, plus emerge --info, lsmod, etc.
I now suspect that my original bug is a "user error". However, you might want to read the end of this note which contains another bug. I guess what happened was that I recompiled the kernel and not the nvidia stuff but didn't realize that. In any event, I can load the module now. It's important to note that it still didn't work for me until I found the thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-394817-highlight-nvidia+6629.html I had to do /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh before it would work. Now all seems good :-)
