[Sussex] Curious happenings doing gentoo kernel upgrade?

[Stephen Williams]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:41 +0000, John D. wrote:
> Paul Turner wrote:
> 
> >
> > Has it upgraded your system to gcc4?  I don't know as I'm not using 
> > gentoo at the moment, but has similar issues in the past when gcc 
> > changed.  Full recompile (almost).
> >
> > Hopefully someone else here can shed more light on this?
> >
> >
> It looks like
> 
> 
> bash-2.05b# gcc-config -l
> [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 *
> [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardened
> [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardenednopie
> [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardenednossp
> bash-2.05b#
> 

If your gcc-config is showing 3.3.5 then I don't think it's likely to be
a compiler problem/mismatch.

However, I have found that the latest nVidia drivers don't cause the
same problems.

I notice that you're currently using 6629-r1. You might try unmasking
the later versions:

echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "x11-base/opengl-update ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

emerge - p nvidia-kernel opengl-update nvidia-glx

I've been using nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 and nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r5
without problems, but I also notice there's 1.0.7167-r1 out now. Gotta
try that one!

Steve W.

> "not". Should "it" be at gcc 3.4 then ? i.e. is it likely that thats the 
> latest "stable" version? because when I've done "emerge -p gcc" (or -up 
> gcc for that matter) I just nothing to upgrade or should the 3.3.5 that 
> appears above be OK?
> 
> Or, is it just that the boot up dialogue reports "Starting natsemi" then 
> "natsemi failed"? Though because nothing graphical starts up either with 
> the 2.6.11-r4 I seem to be able to run links which (I think?) confirms 
> the connections actually working.
> 
> Hence "confusion reigns"!
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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