Bug 77994 – nvidia-kernel incompatible with 2.6.11_rc1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arnaud Vrac 2005-01-14 10:07:45 UTC]

4-level page tables update on 2.6.11_rc1 breaks nvidia-kernel-6629-r1 compilation.
I edited a patch to make it work on amd64 and i386, see the attachment.

[Comment 1 Arnaud Vrac 2005-01-14 10:08:35 UTC]

Created attachment 48484 [details, diff]
make nvidia-kernel work on 2.6.11_rc1

[Comment 2 Arnaud Vrac 2005-01-14 11:24:48 UTC]

It seems minion.de have updated their patches to resolve this issue, i'm sure they are better than mine =))
See http://www.minion.de/files/1.0-6629

[Comment 3 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2005-01-16 08:11:48 UTC]

*** Bug 78221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Andrew Bevitt 2005-01-17 00:51:04 UTC]

Patch applied in 6629-r2 test and confirm please.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-01-19 05:47:51 UTC]

*** Bug 78624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Peter Gordon (RETIRED) 2005-01-22 18:40:31 UTC]

s it possible to backport that patch to nvidia-kernel 1.0.6111-r3? I have an older Riva TNT2 so the 1.0-6629 drivers don't work for me (they cause severe video corruption, among other quirks). I'm using 2.6.11-rc2. Thanks.

[Comment 7 Mathias Zimmermann 2005-01-23 08:12:35 UTC]

With development-sources-2.6.11-rc2 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r2 it doesn't work. The error messages can be show at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=283986

[Comment 8 Luke Hoersten 2005-01-23 18:56:28 UTC]

"With development-sources-2.6.11-rc2 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r2" I can confirm this. It does not work.

[Comment 9 [e-mail] 2005-01-23 21:50:33 UTC]

NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1201042.diff at the site Arnaud posted works w/ 2.6.11-rc2 for p4 and prescott / gcc-3.4.3.

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2005-01-25 15:27:26 UTC]

*** Bug 79426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 11 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-01-25 23:01:27 UTC]

fixed in -r3

[Comment 12 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-01-26 02:43:44 UTC]

Could this fix please be backported to nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111 (as nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r4)? nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 is not stable for me and I had to reinstall my whole system due to a crash caused by it in the past.

[Comment 13 Eric Ding 2005-03-28 04:59:51 UTC]

In case anyone's still listening: can we please see this fix backported to 6111? Like the previous poster, I still don't use 6229 because of stability issues on my machine (nForce w/ built-in GeForce MX chip) with that release and later.  Thanks.

[Comment 14 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-03-28 05:10:59 UTC]

I got 6111 working with Linux 2.6.11 by disabling AGPGART (I was building it as a module before and already used NvAGP instead).

[Comment 15 Sven Jacobs 2005-03-29 01:53:03 UTC]

If you have problems with nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 (like I have with a Riva TNT2) then try to use nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 and nvidia-glx-1.0.7167-r1. You need to unmask them first! They work for me!

[Comment 16 Peter Gordon (RETIRED) 2005-03-31 19:37:22 UTC]

With a Radeon 9200 I have no further need for nVidia's drivers. I'm removing myself from the CC: list.

[Comment 17 Meder Bakirov 2005-03-31 20:11:06 UTC]

I can confirm that nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 and nvidia-glx-1.0.7167-r1 works for an ancient video card as a Riva TNT2 (I have this one :)). It seems, that nVidia reverted back a support for their old video-cards in their drivers, as they promised.