2.6.9 & nvidia

yahont · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject: 2.6.9 & nvidia

Finally, yesterday I decided it's time to switch to 2.6
First, I tried vanilla-2.6.9, but having nvidia I got nothing but troubles.
Then, I compiled vanilla-2.6.8.1, and it works perfectly.

I just wonder, why the newer version gains bugs?

cagemonkey · n00b Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 8

After you have done emerge --sync how do you go back to an older version of the kernel when emerging gentoo-dev-sources?

tuam · l33t Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 765 Location: CGN, Germany

@yahont

What kind of problems do you get? Any error messages? Did you use the same config?

@cagemonkey

Please try asking new questions in new topics. There's no limit for them. :wink:

FF,

Daniel

yahont · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

1. I have prejudice against patched kernels, so I use vanilla-sources
2. To sitch back to older version u can do:

yahont · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

the above was for cagemonkey

the problem was that nvidia module couldn't be loaded

tuam · l33t Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 765 Location: CGN, Germany

yahont · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

the messages are gone. sorry, i needed to have it running - 2.6.9, 2.6.8, 2.6.7, or etc. , no matter.
I didn't use ~x86, because - as I'm aware - it means to accept even a version which wasn't checked for stability.
I understand that might be the problem, but I don't want to play on the box I'm working (not playing) on.

P.S. I have two processors box, as I heard it can matter

Vann · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357

There is known breakage of the nvidia kernel module with kernel 2.6.9. The stable version doesn't load at all and the ~x86 version loads but will eventually cause a NULL pointer dereference somewhere and break.

I just downgraded to 2.6.8 and all is well. I imagine there will be a patch out soon to fix it, even if it's only on Gentoo. The kernel developers themselves aren't so keen on supporting binary-only drivers (though the nvidia one is so popular there'd be quite a fuss if they just up and broke it and refused to fix it).

rambam · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:25 am Post subject: Re: 2.6.9 & nvidia

tuam · l33t Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 765 Location: CGN, Germany

[quote="yahont"
I didn't use ~x86, because - as I'm aware - it means to accept even a version which wasn't checked for stability.[/quote]

That's true. However on my box (Geforce II MX on Asus A7V), the "unstable" driver is working under 2.6.9-rc2-love4 (and before, too) without problems.

FF,

Daniel

burmashave · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 82

sulu · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:

I also had problems with gentoo-2.6.9 and nvidia.
I tried the x86-version but no way to resart the x-server.
The vanilla-kernel works sufficient although i cannot switch to a console whitch was possible with gentoo-2.6.7 before.

The system is quite stable and i can play ut2003.