linux-kernel - Re: NVIDIA's Linux x86 Display Driver fresh driver isn't compatible anymore

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Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:34:30 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Igor M Podlesny <for.poige+linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA's Linux x86 Display Driver fresh driver isn't compatible
 anymore

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