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Bug#421248: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686: does not match linux-image-2.6.20-1-686: nvidia-kernel and vmware driver compilations fail)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686
Version: 2.6.20-3
Severity: important

The headers package is completely useless:

1) nvidia drivers do not work, tried:
build: module-assistant a-i nvidia-kernel
tried installing with "modprobe nvidia", but it refuses to load.
dmesg says module refuses to load because the module disagrees on kernel structures.

2) vmware-config.pl fails with the following:
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon.o': -1 Unknown symbol in module
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel.  You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

I checked Google and such problems usually appear when a different version of gcc is used
to compile the kernel and the driver. However this is not the case, as:
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.20-1-686 (Debian 2.6.20-3) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 21:52:11 UTC 2007
# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

Then I took linux-2.6.20.7 from kernel.org, minimized fieatures in .config and 
compiled it with make-kpkg and everything works with my generated image and headers.

So what went wrong with Debian kernel releases?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686 depends on:
ii  gcc-4.1                       4.1.1-21   The GNU C compiler
ii  linux-headers-2.6.20-1        2.6.20-3   Common header files for Linux 2.6.
ii  linux-kbuild-2.6.20           2.6.20-1   Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.

linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
The headers package is usable. The first point you raised is already reported 
in #419943.

Feel free to open a bug report about the second issue if it's valid and not 
already reported.

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