Bug 275283 – nvidia-drivers-180.29 fails to build against gentoo-sources-2.6.30-*

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Valeriy Malov 2009-06-24 12:24:26 UTC]

When trying to emerge nvidia-dirvers-180.29 against gentoo-sources-2.6.30, emerge ends up with multiple errors:

error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'owner' 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge gentoo-sources-2.6.30
2. Emerge nvidia-drivers-180.29

Actual Results:  
ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29 failed

Expected Results:  
Successfull driver intallation

[Comment 1 Valeriy Malov 2009-06-24 12:26:03 UTC]

Created attachment 195658 [details, diff]
workaround for nvidia-drivers-180.29

180.29 is the only stable driver for me, so I found a workaround for building. Maybe it should be added to ebuild (with checking kernel version)

[Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-06-27 22:53:31 UTC]

Thanks for posting your solution, assigning to maintainers.

[Comment 3 Infinity 2009-07-04 06:48:27 UTC]

also works for :: nvidia-drivers-173.14.18
                  kernel 2.6.30-r1

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2009-07-05 04:11:00 UTC]

Unfortunately, this patch will make it work, but will not address the PAT changes which result in terrible OpenGL performance. I'll be adding a newer release soon.

[Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2009-08-03 03:34:27 UTC]

nvidia-drivers-185.x.y are in the tree now to work with kernel 2.6.30