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Originally Posted by AaronP

That's strange. That doesn't sound like a relocatable binary problem, it sounds like your kernel sources are messed up but I'll have to defer to zander on that.

This is on a Gentoo hardened system.

You were right about the nv driver not initializing the card. I managed to get the nvidia driver to compile by going in the directory

/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2/usr/src/nv/

and then changing part of the file conftest.sh to the following

            #if [ -f conftest$$ ]; then
            #    ./conftest$$ > /dev/null 2>&1
            #    if [ $? = "0" ]; then
                    SELECTED_MFILE=Makefile.kbuild
            #    else
            #        SELECTED_MFILE=Makefile.nvidia
            #    fi
                rm -f conftest$$
                RET=0
            fi
#        else
            #MAKEFILE=$HEADERS/../Makefile
            #CONFIG=$HEADERS/../.config

            #if [ -f $MAKEFILE -a -f $CONFIG ]; then
                #
                # This source tree is not configured, but includes
                # a Makefile and a .config file. If this is a 2.6
                # kernel older than 2.6.6, that's all we require to
                # build the module.
                #
                #PATCHLEVEL=$(grep "^PATCHLEVEL =" $MAKEFILE | cut -d " " -f 3)
                #SUBLEVEL=$(grep "^SUBLEVEL =" $MAKEFILE | cut -d " " -f 3)

                #if [ -n "$PATCHLEVEL" -a $PATCHLEVEL -ge 6 \
                #        -a -n "$SUBLEVEL" -a $SUBLEVEL -le 5 ]; then
                #    SELECTED_MFILE=Makefile.kbuild
                #    RET=0
                #fi
            #fi
#        fi

then I did "make module"

That compiled the nvidia.ko module.
Next I copied the file
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
to the directory
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

Then insmod nvidia.ko
That allowed X to start at 2560x1600 resolution.

Then I did "rmmod nvidia" so that I could use the nv driver.

One problem remaining is that video looks blocky. Is that a problem with the nv driver or some problem with initializing the card?

Thanks for your suggestion.