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Bug 93760

Summary: nvidia modules not found during modprobe
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Kory Stiffler <kstiffle>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: spamlover
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Kory Stiffler 2005-05-23 22:25:53 UTC
When I try to insert the nvidia module using modprobe, I get an error message
that the module is not found.  That's true, because the module is not there even
though I have emerged nvidia-glx.  Even when I copy the modules nvidia.o from my
2.4 kernel modules directory to my 2.6 kernel modules directory, I get an error
when inserting the module.  Works fine with the 2.4 kernel, but all these
problems began with the switch to the 2.6 kernel.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.modprobe nvidia
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
FATAL: Modules nvidia not found.

Then I copied nvidia.o from /lib/modules/2.4.25-gentoo-r2 to 
                            /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6

and did a depmod to update /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/modules.dep
and again ran

#modprobe nvidia

this time getting this error message:

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/video/nvidia.o:
Invalid module format


Expected Results:  
inserted the module and said nothing

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 30 2005, 04:14:46)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.22-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/
http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo 
ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/
http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS=" -j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss
encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
howl imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde kerberos libg++ libwww mad mikmod
motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xv
zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Important: modprobe works when I boot into the 2.4 version, but not when I boot
in to 2.6.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-23 23:49:16 UTC
Huh? This is totally wrong way to do it. The modules need to be re-emerged, not
copied over from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel modules directory. They are not compatible at
all, 2.6 kernels use nvidia.ko, not nvidia.o

Run 'emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx' after any kernel upgrade. 
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-06 03:57:35 UTC
*** Bug 95197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***