Re: Kernel 2.6.9 breaks NVidia module, cannot start X.

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jesse Stockall wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:42, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
>> nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
>
> Try
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-ck1/patches/nvidia_compat.diff
> Jesse

Wow, I'm wondering. The kernel-of-the-day from SUSE (20040929, 20041023
and 20041028) (2.6.8 + 2.6.9-rc2 IIRC) do not even have unsigned int
__VMALLOC_RESERVE in arch/i386/mm/init.c.

More surprisingly, there is not any VMALLOC thing in the NV sources:

12:56 io:../src/nv # pwd
/usr/src/NV/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0/usr/src/nv
12:56 io:../src/nv # grep VMALLOC_RES *
12:56 io:../src/nv # cd /usr/src/NV6/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/
12:56 io:../src/nv # grep VMALLOC_RES *
12:56 io:../src/nv #

So it's not in the 4496 (which I use, due to speed problems with 5xxx and
6xxx in the past) and neither in the 6111.

I'm puzzled, comments welcome.



Jan Engelhardt
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