Bug#496173: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: nVidia driver complains that it's a XEN kernel

["Steven S. Critchfield" <critch@drunkenlogic.com>]

----- "Bastian Blank" <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Steven S. Critchfield
> wrote:
> > No this is not a bug in the NVidia installer. 
> 
> If you believe this is a bug in the kernel please provide evidence.
> The
> XEN entry in the config is no valid indicator.

If the Debian provided config file is not valid for the running kernel, then the packaging is buggy. 

The test the NVidia installer is using is to include <linux/autoconf.h>, then uses an #ifdef to see if CONFIG_XEN is defined. If CONFIG_XEN is defined, it fails. The other test being used is to grep the .config file for CONFIG_XEN=Y.

So I point out, the 2 methods they use seem to be valid tests. The /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686 file and the /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.25-2-686/.config file have CONFIG_XEN=y. So is the headers package broken, and the kernel package including the wrong header, or is it just that the package was misconfigured.

I am very open to how I might test for XEN in the kernel. I will even reboot to get that data for you.

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critch