Nvidia module error (FATAL unresolved symbols kernel)

[mirek_m]

I've emerged both the gentoo-sources and the vanilla kernel, compiled two versions (2.6.14.2) and got this problem with nvidia.

I'm now using 2.6.13-r5and everything works fine. When I copy the SAME configuration file from this kernel to the other and compile it, nvidia starts to cause trouble. The links (/usr/src/linux) are OK, gcc is the same each time. Only those bugs in dmesg (which I unfortuanately cannot put here becase I wiped those kernels). Anyway information that was put when inserting the nvidia.ko module was something like: pci unresolved symbols.

Does anybody experience the same problems with these new NVIDIA drivers 81.74?

Thanks in advance,

mirek

[pv]

Try to reboot with .14 kernel and then emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx. The idea is that nvidia module HAVE to be recompiled for the kernel version it will be used with.

Maybe running make menuconfig for the new kernel and just exiting with saving .config will help.

This is just a suggestion, I haven't tried this because I have no such problems using .13 kernel.
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[mirek_m]

Tired it already. No effect. I'm beginning to suspect that somebody is screwing up the kernel in order to make our lives miserable :/
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[pv]

The only thing I can suppose is that the .13 and .14 kernels has different behaviour in module autoloading or even in module loading. Try to make all the neccesary features to be built-in in the kernel. I mean don't use modules at all (of course except NVIDIA one) by making your kernel monolithic.
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[ascl]

Check out:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50150)

Its a known problem with the nvidia kernel module and a patch exists in the above thread....