Re: nvidia binary driver broken with 2.6.6-rc{1,2}, reverting a -mm patch makes it work

From: Marc-Christian Petersen
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 03:38:41 EST


On Friday 23 April 2004 10:30, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

Hi Ralf,

> > Because of a patch from -mm merged in mainstream i cannot get the nvidia
> > binary to work with the 2.6.6 release candidates. I get this message
> > when doing `modprobe nvidia`:

> $ uname -a
> Linux hummus2 2.6.6-rc2-bk1 #1 Thu Apr 22 14:15:08 CEST 2004 i686
> GNU/Linux
> nvidia works like a charm here.

that's the problem. It works for many people, for many others not. It always
worked fine for me too but I had to rip that out of my 2.6-WOLK tree to
satisfy all people using wolk and lack of knowledge to fix that by myself.

ciao, Marc
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