Hi, today a new patch for the 7174 and 7676 kernel-drivers was posted by zander on the nvnews forum. He wrote, that this is an important update: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57990 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 70390 [details, diff] patch vor 7174 driver on AMD64
Created attachment 70391 [details, diff] patch for 7676 driver on AMD64
This in reality is a 2.6 kernel bug. I suggest using the fix which is already in 2.6.14-rc4 from Andi Kleen / Terence Ripperda instead. Original comment: Undo wrong change in global_flush_tlb. We need to flush the caches in all cases, not just when pages were reverted. This was a bogus optimization added earlier, but it was wrong. I'll attach a patch against 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 (which I currently use).
Created attachment 70422 [details, diff] fix against kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3
Hi, not everybody using the 7174/7676 drivers also uses the latest (gentoo)-kernels. IMHO it would be better to add the patches to the nvidia-kernel.ebuilds to cover that users too. but I am just a user, so don't listen ;)
i disagree, the error should always get fixed at its root. rather fix gentoo-sources and let nvidia-kernel depend on a version that is fixed
*** Bug 109303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r5
