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[Frank Switalski <ne00xide AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:22:35 -0700, Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> Quoting "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>:
> > Robin,
> >
> > I ran into this problem myself. It was, i think ner0x who helped me with 
> > this
> >
> > one.
> >
> > The nvidia_kernel spell can not cast in a ram drive (why? Who knows?).  In
> > order to cast it, do the following:
> >
> > 1. at your command-line, run 'sorcery'
> > 2. Choose 'Option'
> > 3. Choose 'Feature Menu'
> > 4. move the bar to 'TMPFS' and hit you spacebar to unselect it.
> > 5. Hit return all the way out of the Sorcery menu system
> >
> >
> > That should do it!  I spent all day trying to get the damn thing to work, 
> > and
> >
> > this simple thing fixed it.
> >
> > Bearcat
> 
> Instead of turning TMPFS off in Sorcery, could you try putting TMPFS="off" 
> in
> nvidia_driver/DETAILS and recasting?
> 
> 
> 
> -sandalle
> 
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When I had this problem it was that nvidia_driver was using something
in the kernel that wasn't there. A missing file or whatnot, so I just
recompiled and I also went with sandalles "rm -rf /usr/src/NVIDIA*"
and I don't think I was using TEMPFS in the first place.