118611 – nvidia-kernel on 2.6.15-git*

Bug 118611 - nvidia-kernel on 2.6.15-git*

Summary: nvidia-kernel on 2.6.15-git*

Status:	VERIFIED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Other

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:	http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showt...
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Reported:	2006-01-10 20:23 UTC by le.evil
Modified:	2006-01-10 20:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description le.evil 2006-01-10 20:23:06 UTC

Nvidia driver doesnt install on amd64 using kernel 2.6.15-git2 and git4. 
Diff file for nvidia driver available from url

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-10 20:36:06 UTC

To quote the ebuild, this kernel is not supported by Gentoo due to its unstable and experimental nature. If you have any issues, try a matching vanilla-sources
ebuild -- if the problem is not there, please contact the upstream kernel
developers at http://bugme.osdl.org and on the linux-kernel mailing list to
report the problem so it can be fixed in time for the next kernel release.

Comment 2 le.evil 2006-01-10 20:41:32 UTC

well using vanilla-sources and gentoo-sources the kernel wont even boot for me. It doesnt find /dev/* stuff. git works fine apart from this bug

Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-10 20:53:45 UTC

The nvidia sure isn't supported by upstream, but I did see in a nvidia
forum somewhere where they had a patch that fixed things to work properly
with this driver (it was linked off of a post on the linux-kernel mailing
list.)

So again, this is a upstream issue, not a gentoo-kernel issue, please
do not add bugs to this database for this kernel tree.