Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261336AbVAMRkS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:40:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261331AbVAMRjS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:39:18 -0500 Received: from fsmlabs.com ([168.103.115.128]:25817 "EHLO fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261336AbVAMRig (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:38:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:38:56 -0700 (MST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: jarausch@belgacom.net cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module In-Reply-To: <20050113151050.051BEFEC0E@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: References: <20050113151050.051BEFEC0E@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 26 On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 jarausch@belgacom.net wrote: > yes I know, you don't like modules without full sources available. > But Nvidia is the leading vendor of video cards and all 2.4.x > kernels up to 2.4.13-pre5 work nice with this module. > > Running pre6 I get > (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xf0000000,0x2000000) > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate LUT context DMA > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > > > This is Nvidia's 1.0-1541 version of its Linux drivers > > Please keep this driver going during the 2.4.x series of the > kernel if at all possible. That is quite the request, support both an old 2.4 kernel and a similarly geriatric nvidia driver. If you prefer 2.4.13 why not just go back to a working 2.4.13-pre? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/