The svgalib_helper.ko module is not loadable on 2.6.6 kernels. The error when issueing a `insmod svgalib_helper.ko' is `invalid module format'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. execute `emerge =media-libs/svgalib-helper-1.9.18-r1 2. execute `modprobe svgalib_helper' Actual Results: Error: Invalid module format Expected Results: nothing, issueing `lsmod' would have had to produce a list with libsvga_helper in it. A solution is to make sure that svgalib-1.9.18-r1/kernel/Makefile is executed instead of svgalib-1.9.18-r1/kernel/Makefile.alt. For me this solved the problem. I use module-init-tools 3.0 from module-init-tools-3.0-r2.ebuild With a vanilla 2.6.6 kernel.
what if you run `modinfo` on the module after building with the ebuild ? when you used the Makefile, did you do so with the ebuild, or did you build it yourself ?
latexer: this is the new 2.6.6 mod stuff thats breaking here yeah ?
well re-open when you get back to us
Hello, i have the same problem. I use the kernel from the development-sources-2.6.6. Svgalib-1.9.17-r3 and also the "unstable" svgalib-1.8.18-r1 have emerge perfectly, but when i try to modprobe or insmod the module libsvga_helper i get the message: insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.6/misc/svgalib_helper.ko': -1 Invalid module format The modinfo command produce only this: license: GPL and additional rights author: Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org> description: Generic hardware access to vga cards The effect is, that the kernel-udev can't create the /dev/svga device. The module was produces with the regular ebuild. I don't have compile it manualy. Is more information needed?
it's the new kernel stuff ... since nvidia-kernel seems to do it properly now, i'll see how it works
should be fixed in 1.9.18-r1
