nvida drivers incompatible with 2.6.2-rc1-mm1?

DamnDirtyApe

G'day!

Last night I tried out the -mm1 patch on the 2.6.2-rc1 kernel. Compiled and booted fine, but when I tried to start X, it complained about the nvidia drivers; something about tainting the kernel. This hasn't been a problem in all my updates since 2.4.20, but I've only been running plain vanilla kernels until now. Is this a known problem, and is there a way around it?

Thanks!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

DamnDirtyApe,

The tainted kernel message is a warning not an error and has always been there with the nVidia drivers. The system knows they are not GPL, and warns you.
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Chaosite · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:00 am Post subject:

GPL?

This has nothing to do with tainting the kernel that way. The Linux Kernel could care less whether modules were GPL or 100% Microsoft EULA.

The kernel complains because the nVidia module does not have a magic cookie that matches its own (or more precisely, because the nVidia module does not have a magic cookie at all).

Since the magic cookie contains information that lets the kernel know if a module is compatible with it, if there is no information then the kernel doesn't know what went in and whether or not it will work.