Re: nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion

[Gilles <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>]

Hi.

> 
> But starting  xserver fails, dmesg gives error messages like 
> 
> nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
> 
> I think the reason is, that kernel 2.6.14 needs nvidia driver 
> 7676, which is not part of Sid (unstable) for AMD64.
>

Yes, you need to add

#---cut---
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/amd64/
#---cut--

in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file and you'll get the possibility
to download the tarball of the 7676 version, from which you can then
make the installable module.  My attempts were described in this
thread:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/11/msg00233.html


Gilles