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Bug 158160 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9742 nvidia module won't load
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9742 nvidia module won't load
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154746
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-12-14 13:06 UTC by Matt Wheeler
Modified: 2008-03-17 21:53 UTC (History)
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Description Matt Wheeler 2006-12-14 13:06:15 UTC
modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/video/nvidia.ko): No such device

... can't load module nvidia
missing kernel or user mode driver nvidia

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# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP  2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:30:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch/"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac alsa apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jack jpeg kernel_linux lame libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session speex spell spl ssd sse sse2 ssl svg symlink tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vga vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

The previous 9xxx version of the drivers worked fine (9626 maybe? It's not in portage anymore).
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-14 13:26:08 UTC
Use 1.0.96xx


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154746 ***
Comment 2 Matt Wheeler 2006-12-14 13:32:11 UTC
Sorry... GeForceMX 4 has been moved to nvidia-legacy-drivers..
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-14 14:39:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry... GeForceMX 4 has been moved to nvidia-legacy-drivers..

1.0.9631 still works fine on those...
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-17 21:53:04 UTC
Fix bugzilla screw-up
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-17 21:53:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154746 ***