kernel 2.6.12-r4 and nvidia don't play together

piwacet · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 486

Hi. I recently emerged the new kernel, 2.6.12-r4 according to the kernel upgrade guide, and since doing that I have not been able to get nvidia module to load at boot. Of course I re-emerged the driver and went thru the steps in the documentation for setting up the nvidia driver. Furthermore, when I modprobe nvidia after re-emerging nvidia-kernel, I get:

je_fro · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:06 am Post subject:

Yeah, it did that to me when I had nvidia framebuffer enabled. I took it out and nvidia would load.
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My site with some gentoo config files:
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piwacet · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 486

Thanks. I set grub to not try to use framebuffer stuff, and my kernel does not have any framebuffer stuff compiled in. Still same error when I 'modprobe nvidia.'

Of note, I'm using the same nvidia-kernel as with kernel-2.6.11-r11, so it's not that I've emerged an nvidia driver that does not support my kernel.

piwacet · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 486

So it seems this has been a problem with the driver I use, 6111, and the new 2.6.12 kernel. Here's some discussion:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-333781-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-intermoduleget-start-0.html

Reading thru, it seems I would need to patch the driver as some people have to work around the 'inter_module_get' error.

I cann't use the more recent nvidia driver as it does not work on my hardware.

Unless something else comes along to fix this.

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 927

piwacet: I'm exactly in the same boat:

- using the 6111 nvidia driver because newer ones don't work with my hardware
- the 2.6.11 kernels work fine
- the 2.6.12 kernel breaks the nvidia driver with "Unknown symbol inter_module_get"

I'd appreciate it if the nvidia ebuild could be fixed; I very much prefer not having to patch my kernel.

piwacet · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 486

You actually don't need to patch the kernel, you patch the nvidia driver. The discussion in the above link pretty much tells you how to do it. Look for the discussion towards the end someone helped me patch my driver. It worked. I'm not at my comuter now and I cann't remember all the names of the directories, but if you have any questions, post, as people have been helpful. Good luck.

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 927

I think I'll stay away from 2.6.12 for the time being. It breaks stuff all over the place.