Bug 39341 – gentoo-dev 2.6.1-r1 sources nvidia-kernel 1.0.5328-r1 wrong location nvidia.o

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Peterson 2004-01-25 05:29:41 UTC]

I emerged nvidia-kernel after building my kernel in genkernel.. 
(switched my driver to nv for reboot, then switched it to nvidia after booting with new kernel)

These are the locations of my nvidia.o
I had to copy it from

/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo-r1/video/nvidia.o
to
/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo/kernel/drivers/media/video/nvidia.o

but it should have been in:
/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/media/video/nvidia.o

but modprobe -l shows everything without the -r1
bash-2.05b# find / -iname "nvidia.o"
/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo/kernel/drivers/media/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.6.0-gentoo/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo-r1/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3.ARRG/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r1/video/nvidia.o


Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge gentoo-dev sources  (2.6.1-r1)
2. genkernel it..
3.  modify grub.conf according to instructions in the genkernel readme
4. switch driver to nv
5.  reboot
6. have other wierd things happen to system like ethernet cards swap
7. edit /etc/conf.d/net to make eth1 be my card instead of eth0 wich is now the onboard which ticked me off 
8. emerge nvidia-kernel
9. xdm doesn't restart when I do /etc/init.d/xdm restart (I'm using kdm from 3.2rc1)
10.  do startx
11. xfree  (I'm using ~x86 complains about not being able to load a module
12. lsmod shows no nvidia
13.  modprobe nvidia --> no module found
14.  find / -iname 'nvidia.o' finds above list
15. modprobe exact path didn't work
16. insmod exact path worked
17. startx worked
18.  added nvidia to modules.autoload
19. copied nvidia.o as said before
20.  kdm and stuff came up without anythin manual
(just need to make net.eth0 not start up by default)
--
21... got a hair up my arse to do xfree4.3.99
22...  freetype didn't work so currently going back to 4.3



Actual Results:  
work arround made it work.

Expected Results:  
put the nvidia.o thingie where it can be found.

[Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2004-01-25 15:00:56 UTC]

Please try nvidia-kernel-1.0.5332...

[Comment 2 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-02-01 18:25:31 UTC]

the -r1 thing was also solved recently.
closing bug.
please re-open if you have problems.