Bug 18567 – Nvidia 4349 wont start on development kernels

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Gyes 2003-03-31 18:49:06 UTC]

It doesnt work.  It compiles fine and modprobes fine, but x dies trying to use it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use 2.5.x kernels
2. Emerge nvidia-kernel 4349 drivers
3. Start X

Actual Results:  
X dies complaining 

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***

Expected Results:  
It should start and work

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-03-31 18:51:10 UTC]

leave the kernel drivers at 4191 and try the new drivers only for -glx.  That's all the info we have so far.

[Comment 2 Aaron Gyes 2003-03-31 18:53:33 UTC]

some people have gotten it fixed by removing the patch block that starts at line 2029 in the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4349-2.5.diff . It may however create some race conditions, I'm not sure.

[Comment 3 Aaron Gyes 2003-03-31 19:04:08 UTC]

removing the block does _not_ work here, some people on the forums have gotten success from it, others havn't, me included.

[Comment 4 Aaron Gyes 2003-03-31 23:33:34 UTC]

me and one person on the forums, and two people in #gentoo have figured out that the patch minus the patch block starting at line 2029 does fix it for people running development-sources (ie 2.5.66) however, there are more problems on 2.5.66-mm1, where there arn't any /dev/nvidia* devices after emerging and modprobing.

[Comment 5 Clint Silvester 2003-04-01 11:19:40 UTC]

Taking out that patch block did not fix it for me or another person in #nvidia, FWIW.

[Comment 6 Clint Silvester 2003-04-01 11:22:20 UTC]

Oops, forgot to mention I'm running 2.5.66 vanilla.

[Comment 7 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-01 17:02:33 UTC]

nvidia-kernel-4349-r1 fixes it for me.  The 2.5 patch from minion.de was updated
today ...

[Comment 8 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-03 06:40:12 UTC]

Like I said, -r1 should fix this.