Re: 2.6 kernel and nvidia drivers
On Saturday 10 January 2004 00:09, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2004 19:45, Stephen Touset wrote:
> > I have yet to find out if the Debian-provided nvidia-kernel drivers work
> > correctly with the 2.6 kernel, and I'd really like to know before I dive
> > headlong into the new kernel version. Anyone know?
>
> I am having trouble - I patched the driver with the 2.6 patch and then
> rebuilt it into a deb which I then installed.
>
> When the module tries to load (as XFree tries to start up when kdm is
> started) I get an entry in syslog as invalid module format.
>
Having got rid of millions of debug messages from syslog (see "More 2.6.0
woes" post below) I can now see that the error messages when trying to load
the nvidia module is related to unknown symbols "smp_call_function" and
"cpu_online_map"
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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