Re: Inserting nvidia kernel module on AMD 64

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap@gmx.net>]

Am 2005.12.29 19:37 schrieb(en) Anders E. Andersen:
> I have an Asus A6Q (Km) laptop with an nvidia geforce go video adaptor.  
> The laptop has a Turion64 CPU. I am using Debian unstable (AMD64)  
> installed using the Etch beta netboot installer.
>
> I followed the instructions on creating the nvidia kernel module. Using  
> regular x86 distro I could install the package and do a modprobe nvidia  
> to load the module. Now I switched to the AMD64 distro, and the module  
> (rebuild completely) wont install. I get these errors in dmesg after I  
> modprobe nvidia:
>
> nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
> nvidia: Unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
>
> Acording to the amd64 info I have been able to find, this should 'just  
> work'.

Are you sure you installed the amd64 version of the module-source? With  
kernel-package you have to remove /usr/src/modules/nvidia and untar  
/usr/src/nvidia-source... again.

And there are some known problems with the latest 2.6.15-rc kernels.

cu
/Steffen

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