Re: NVIDIA's Linux x86 Display Driver fresh driver isn't compatibleanymore

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 01:34:47 EST


On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:28:40 +0700
Igor M Podlesny <for.poige+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2008-02-05 12:32, Igor M Podlesny wrote:
> > On 2008-02-04 20:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:16:48 +0700 Igor M Podlesny
> >> <for.poige+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> Now I can say that both 2.6.24-mm1 and 2.6.24-git11 do NOT
> >>> "see" any of mine LVM-2 disks. pvscan, for e.g., finds nothing at
> >>> all.
> >>
> >> You may find that you need to update your lvm userspace tools.
> >
> > You're right; I've updated my initrd with fresh lvm
> > userspace-counterpart and now the problem has been fixed. Sorry for
> > groundless alert.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> But as russian proverb says, trouble never comes alone. :-)
> NVIDIA's fresh driver isn't compatible anymore:
>
> 1) To have compiled it I had to replace global_flush_tlb()
> call with __flush_tlb_all() and still guessing was it(?) a correct
> replacment at all :-)

it is not;
>
> 2) When loading it emits such messages:
>
> nvidia: Unknown symbol change_page_attr
> nvidia: Unknown symbol init_mm
>
> Can it be quick and easy solved?

best asked at one of the nvidia forums, not on lkml...
they need to adjust a few API calls, it's not hard work but they need
to do that (their driver isn't open source)


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