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Bug 96500

Summary: nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 module fails to initialize with kernel 2.6.12-gentoo
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) <sebastian>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: hynek
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
kernel configuration

Description Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-18 21:37:01 UTC
media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 builds okay against 2.6.12-gentoo but
fails to initialize.

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

Actual Results:  
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!


Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.12-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms
sign strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,combreloc"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux
dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fame font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww
lzo mad mikmod mjpeg mmx moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses nls
nomotif nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python
quicktime readline samba slang spell sse ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs xml2 xv xvid
zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS
Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-18 21:37:31 UTC
Created attachment 61470 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comment 2 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-18 21:38:38 UTC
Created attachment 61471 [details]
kernel configuration
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-19 02:29:31 UTC
Well, what about never versions? I'm afraid Gentoo won't be able to do too much
about it. 
Comment 4 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-19 06:29:45 UTC
Newer versions do not work with the nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Go chip I have in my
laptop.
Comment 5 Hynek Schlawack 2005-06-21 08:33:07 UTC
FYI: I have similar problems with nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664 and a nVidia FX 6800. I
had to downgrade to 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. I hadn't any problems upgrading all the
way throught the previous "r"s.

My error was "No devices" or something similar though.

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/"
LANG="de"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de cs"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts artworkextra avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl dba dga directfb
divx4linux doc dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd examples fam fame
fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran fping gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg
junit kde ldap leim libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mpm-prefork msn mule mysql ncurses network news nls
nntp nocardbus nptl ntpl nvidia objc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss
pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime rar
readline real rtc ruby sasl sdl slang spell sqlite ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd
tcpserver tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwidgets wxwindows x86 xface xine xinetd xml xml2
xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_de linguas_cs userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 6 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-30 09:27:39 UTC
Forgot to mention this before, from dmesg:

  nvidia: Unknown symbol inter_module_get
Comment 7 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-02 08:49:09 UTC
Kernel 2.6.12 deprecated some functions in its AGP modules that both nVidia and
ATI used. Like Jakub said in comment #3, there's not much that can be done.
inter_module_get is the one that both drivers have been choking over.

In response to #4: this is an unfortunate effect of using binary drivers in an
open-source world. You can't use the xorg driver instead?
Comment 8 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-02 14:05:02 UTC
No, the X.org nv driver does not support dual-head which I need for giving
presentations with my laptop.
Comment 9 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-20 10:58:51 UTC
Closing, versions of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx no longer in portage.