Re: Sid: linux-image-2.6.20-1-k7 + bug 419943

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you run the propriatory nvidia module for X in the just released 
> 2.6.20-1-k7/686 you will get bitten by:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419943
>
> It seems that the config uses CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled and nvidia does 
> not like that.
>
> It's back to 2.6.18 or wait till the maintainers do something.
>
> Hugo

The bottomline is that neither module-assistant nor the nvidia install 
script will succeed and there is of yet no premade module for 2.6.20.

The only way to install nvidia with Debian's 2.6.20 kernel is to install 
the source and change CONFIG_PARAVIRT.

Hugo