Weblog entry #28 for ajt

NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by ajt on Mon 13 Feb 2006 at 14:40

Yesterday I upgraded my Debian Etch system, to the latest KDE, xorg and kernel. As a result my previous nvidia-glx kernel module is now invalid. As I didn't create the original one, I now have the problem of trying to create a nvidia kernel module for my new kernel.

These notes Debian AMD64 Howto proved most useful for most thing, but I couldn't get the making nvidia driver to work last time, nor this time...

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by Anonymous (195.14.xx.xx) on Mon 13 Feb 2006 at 16:29

try to follow this tutorials i have made it work using this

nVidia Drivers Installation in Debian

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by ajt (84.12.xx.xx) on Mon 13 Feb 2006 at 19:12
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Tried it, but it doesn't create a usable kernel module. Useful link though.

"nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
nvidia: Unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion"

I also tried:

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
and
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50150

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by ajt (204.193.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Feb 2006 at 09:45
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It wouldn't work, so I got hold of a newer nvidia-kernel from http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/ and then it worked first time.

Thanks for the suggestions, most useful.

Now all I have to do is figure out why only root has sound, it was working fine for normal users before I started to fiddle...

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by Anonymous (213.178.xx.xx) on Mon 13 Feb 2006 at 23:17

Hey,

nothing simpler than this: install module-assistant and run

m-a a-i nvidia

on etch and sid, this does the trick. On sarge you need a gcc-3.3 compileld kernel (like the backports.org one).

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by Anonymous (85.156.xx.xx) on Thu 9 Mar 2006 at 19:19

nothing simpler than this: install module-assistant and run

Complete waste of time. It still gives the same error "Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion" with 1.0.7174-3 and 2.6.15.4-amd64-k8 kernel. I don't know which sources ajt got from the "NVIDIA Driver Packages for Debian" page, but next I'm going to try "nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1". In general, I find the module-assistant to be more like "modules-my-ass-tant", it didn't get loop-aes right for me either, looking for a system.map with the local version name appended, when make-kpkg installs it without and everything else seems to read it that way. I think m-a is a great idea, there shouldn't be umpteenth steps in istalling a simple driver, but when it fails miserably without showing where it went wrong and how to fix it, it's not good even as a troubleshooting aid.

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Feb 2006 at 15:58

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=11337800623256 4&w=2

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Re: NVIDIA into a stock AMD64 kernel

Posted by ajt (84.12.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Feb 2006 at 20:42
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Closed source binaries in the kernal are probably a bad idea...

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