Re: Inserting nvidia kernel module on AMD 64 (solved)

["Anders E. Andersen" <andersa@ellenshoej.dk>]

Steffen Klemer skrev:

> 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.


I was just about to reply to my own post, because I found out what the 
problem was, with help from the maintainer.

There is a patch here there deals with this issue.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50150


I still can't get X to start up though. It complains that it cannot find 
a mode that fits the displays (the laptop lcd) hsync range. I have no 
clue what that is about.

Anders