Whenever I tried to install, it would fail with the strage and misleading message telling me that I needed to make mrproper for my kernel dir. Doing so did not help the situation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge '>=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111' 2. 3. Actual Results: error Expected Results: success - it has always worked in prior versions... (a recent portage sync made me update to 1.0.6111 and it has failed now) I tried running the install using the 'nvidia-installer' and got the same results, so -- unpacking the package with 'ebuild ... unpack', then changing to the portage workdir (/var/tmp/...), I did: ./nvidia-installer --add-this-kernel Followed by: ./nvidia-installer and it worked fine -- it seems it did not understand my kernel version, so the '--add-this-kernel' is what I needed to get past the issue. I did an 'emerge inject' to keep portage from complaining after that.
Upgrade to >= 2.6.6; or if you cannot, see my comments at the end of the duplicate for more. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56499 ***
