Howto "untaint a module"?

valetudo · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Hampton NH

Ive read the http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted article but I dont quite undersand what to do about it.

I have the infamous no usable screens found error while installing Nvidia drivers, Ive tried serveral different versions of the nvidia kernel and glx.

I can load the drivers without a problem but I cant avoid the tanited error.

Is there a way to fix this?

idl · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject:

you dont need to untaint your module, tainted means that the module isnt open source so things may go wrong and may not be a way of fixing it as they dont have access to the code.
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valetudo · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Hampton NH

what exactly causes the this error?, some people using the same module dont get this error while others do.

Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module nvidia loaded, with warnings

does this mean my kernel is not compatible with nvidia.o

tyler · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

idl · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject:

its not an error, just a warning - the module loaded fine, do lsmod to see it.
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valetudo · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Hampton NH

thanks for the info guys, took me a while but I get it now.