Nvidia driver and VMALLOC_RESERVE problem

[Barry K. Nathan]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:04:44PM -0400, Jim Martin wrote:
> First thing I would do is lose the 2.6.8-1.584 kernel, it has been 
> pulled from the update list, so I can only assume that is because it is 
> buggy as hell.

It was pulled due to SELinux bugs in particular.

> the nVida driver works great with 2.6.8-1.541
> 
> I know this wasn't much help, but I had the same problem and that is 
> what I ended up doing.

The VMALLOC_RESERVE problem is an NVidia driver problem, not a kernel
bug. There was a one-line workaround for the nvidia driver posted to the
linux-kernel mailing list (the problem happens with recent mm kernels too).

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>