Monday, July 8, 2013

Kernel-3.10 Nvidia 325.08 error

Found working patch from the nvidia developers forum. https://devtalk.nvidia.com/cmd/default/download-
comment-attachment/58795/ 

How to apply patch in Gentoo: Just let epatch_user do the work :-)

All you need to do is create a nvidia-drivers dir in /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/
mkdir -p /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers 

Download patch and copy it to newly created directory.
cp ~/Downloads/nvidia-drivers-linux-3.10.patch /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/ 

Then just emerge nvidia-drivers or module-rebuild rebuild
PATCHES=/etc/portage/patches emerge -va nvidia-drivers