On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:43:21 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>>> For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3 > >>>> installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - > >>>> against each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and > >>>> installs a > >>>> kernel driver into /lib/modules/<kernel version>) > >>> > >>> It's a bit more obfuscated than that. Maybe nvidia-drivers work > >>> different, but ati-drivers will build against /usr/src/linux but > >>> install the actual modules in /lib/modules/running_kernel. If > >>> /usr/src/linux doesn't point to the running kernel, the modules will be > >>> installed in the wrong place. > >> > >> That is just so mind-bogglingly absurdly stupid I doubt if ATI should > >> even be > >> allowed near a computer.... > >> > >> Compiling code never depends on something running, it only depends on > >> things > >> being present that can be linked against. > >> > >> Thanks for reminding me why I insist on NVidia GPUs, I'd forgotten. > > > > This isn't ATI's installer. It's the ebuild that does this. > > And from deep memory it seems like there were other packages that > operated this way 8-10 years ago. I know in 1999 I had to be very > careful about where the linux link pointed, and while it's not as > necessary today to do so i'm still quite careful. > > I use the ATI drivers on my AMD64 machine. I think I've always found > that I needed to emerge fglrx after the new kernel had been booted but > never understood why. This email is helpful. It seems to me that if it > is the ebuild that's doing this is needs to be fixed. If I understand > correctly I could be building for 2.6.31 but installing in 2.6.29? > That's not right...
I agree, the ebuild should be fixed. I can't think of any valid reason for that behaviour. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
