[Sussex] Curious happenings doing gentoo kernel upgrade?

[John D.]

Stephen Williams wrote:

>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!
>  
>
>
I found something that pointed me towards doing that just before getting 
your e-mail Steve, except the pointer only said about putting the 
unmasking info for the actual nvidia kernel (6629-r4) in there and then 
doing "emerge --oneshot nvidia-kernel", but I'll try the rest after my 
"din-din" :-P

I still can't find out why the natsemi module is failing, though it 
seems that there are some emerge/complie snags with the 2.6.11-r4 
kernel, but no-one seems to be telling as to why!

Still I don't suppose it represents a problem because I still seem to be 
able to get net/e-mail access! So I'll worry about that later!

regards

John D.