Bug 65975 – media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r1 needs patch to run with kernel-2.6.9-rc3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2004-09-30 19:41:39 UTC]

Hi,

I recently upgraded my kernel to version 2.6.9-rc3 (development-sources) an was unable to load the nvidia driver after emerging the version mentioned in topic.
In dmesg I got an errormessage:

nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE

So I checked lkml and foud the link I posted in the URL line.
There is a patched tarball of nvidia-drivers but no patches. So I dled the tarball and diffed the patch out.
As far as I can say, the patch works and I can use nvidia-driver again with 2.6.9-rc3

Poly

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =development-sources-2.6.9_rc3 and build the kernel
2. reboot
3. emerge =nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r1
4. modprobe nvidia

Actual Results:  
Module nvidia doesn't load due to the error posted above

Expected Results:  
Module is getting loaded.

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2004-09-30 19:43:26 UTC]

Created attachment 40826 [details]
nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-2.6.9-rc3_vmalloc_reserve-fix.diff

[Comment 2 [e-mail] 2004-10-02 13:06:45 UTC]

cc
i was only able to install nvidia.ko after using this patch with nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r1.  nv.c shows pci_find_class.patch, power-suspend-2.6.9-changes.patch and nv_enable_pci.patch were used as well.

[Comment 3 Andrew Bevitt 2004-10-04 04:10:56 UTC]

Fixed.