with aforementioned drivers selected as modules, "make bzImage" fails. It fails somewhere in the final linking stage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. after "make menuconfig" select "support for framebuffer devices 2.select as Modules : " VESA VGA graphics support", "nVidia Framebuffer Support", "nVidia Riva support" 3. make bzImage Actual Results: make[1]: `arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. CHK include/linux/compile.h CHK usr/initramfs_list GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x6778): undefined reference to `cfb_fillrect' drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x6780): undefined reference to `cfb_copyarea' drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x6788): undefined reference to `cfb_imageblit' drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x6790): undefined reference to `soft_cursor' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Expected Results: correct bzImage file in arch/x86_64/boot
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98598 ***
(In reply to comment #0) 1. I forgot to menition that kernel in queestion was the newest gentoo-sources-2.6.12.r4 2. I don't understand, how could this be aliased with a bug No. 98598. That one mentions X11 driver in "nvidia-kernel"- nivida's closed source external driver installer while mine covers framebuffer driver in gentoo-sources Furthermore, poster of bug #98598 says that nvidia framebuffer works for him (since "nv" driver in xorg.conf works) so that means his framebuffer drivers compile and work O.K... On the end, he doesn't even mention his kernel version, and judging from "nvidia-kernel" version (6629) it seems his kernel was quite an old one, while mine is probably only a few hours in portage tree, marked as stable...
> 2. I don't understand I do not either. Seems I accidentally looked at the same bug twice and took yours as dupe. Sorry. ;)
Does setting VESA VGA graphics support to Y or N fix the problem? (note that the vesafb driver will not work as a module, and vesafb-tng, which would work, is not available on amd64)
see comment #4
