Latest Fedora Core 3 status: kernel testing needed

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:20 +0200, oliver frommel wrote:
> > 
> >  > After installing this kernel I am unable to compile the
> >  > Nvidia driver. It worked with 2.6.9-1.639, however.
> >  > 
> >  > nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
> >  > 
> >  > I think I know how to fix it, but you probably should, too,
> >  > in your tree (export the symbol in arch/i386/mm/init.c
> >  > in the case of i386?)
> > 
> > No. It's a vm internal symbol that no driver has any
> > right to be touching. NVIDIA also agreed to this publically
> > on linux-kernel, along with a patch to fix it in their
> > driver iirc.
> > 
> 
> great, so in the meantime you will prompt your end users
> to find said patch on the internet and apply it to the
> official nvidia driver?

You should be using the livna.org RPMs anyway (which have a
workaround/fix/whatever) because this means that the driver can be
cleanly installed along the libraries etc. that came with the OS. You
can also build binaries that need GL that actually run on systems
without the Nvidia libraries.

Nils
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