Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:13:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:13:49 -0400 Received: from fe070.worldonline.dk ([212.54.64.208]:5895 "HELO fe070.worldonline.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:13:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3BD532EC.6080803@eisenstein.dk> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:05:48 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Organization: Eisenstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jarausch@belgacom.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module In-Reply-To: <200110221846.f9MIkE416013@riker.skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jarausch@belgacom.net wrote: > Hello, > > 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 I use the same version of the driver with my Geforce3 and I am also running 2.4.13-pre6 and it works just fine so I don't agree with you that it breaks... You do know that there are a few files that need to be recompiled every time you build a new kernel - right? See "http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/1021/SUPP/README.txt" for details. Here's a quote from that file explaining what I do myself - that should work for you: " INSTALLING/UPGRADING BY TAR FILE Instructions for the Impatient: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install Instructions: To install from tar file, unpack each file: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz cd into the NVIDIA_kernel directory. Type 'make install'. This will compile the kernel interface to the NVdriver, link the NVdriver, copy the NVdriver into place, and attempt to insert the NVdriver into the running kernel: $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install Next, move into the NVIDIA_GLX directory. Type 'make install' -- this will copy the needed OpenGL and XFree86 files into place: $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install Note that the "make install" for each package will remove any previously installed NVIDIA drivers. " Best regards, Jesper Juhl - 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/