Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: nvidia binary driver broken with 2.6.6-rc{1,2}, reverting a -mm patch makes it work | From | Antony Suter <> | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:43:05 +1000 |
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Marc wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2004 10:30, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > > > Because of a patch from -mm merged in mainstream i cannot get the nvidia > > > binary to work with the 2.6.6 release candidates. I get this message > > > when doing `modprobe nvidia`: > > > $ uname -a > > Linux hummus2 2.6.6-rc2-bk1 #1 Thu Apr 22 14:15:08 CEST 2004 i686 > > GNU/Linux > > nvidia works like a charm here. > > that's the problem. It works for many people, for many others not. It always > worked fine for me too but I had to rip that out of my 2.6-WOLK tree to > satisfy all people using wolk and lack of knowledge to fix that by myself.
I had this problem, and I resolved it for me like this: In the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg?.run archive from Nvidia are multiple make files. By default, my distro was using the make file "makefile" and it stopped working. I switched to using "Makefile.kbuild", which is oriented to 2.6 kernels, and it works again. Comments within Makefile.kbuild touch on changes to module handling in 2.6 compared to 2.4.
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