Kernel 2.6.9 breaks NVidia module, cannot start X.

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 09:44:31 EST


Kernel: 2.6.9
GCC: 3.4.2
NVIDIA: 6111 (latest as of 10/19/04)

cc -Wp,-MD,/appc/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.nvidia.mod.
o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-protot
ypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -W
declaration-after-statement -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno
-unit-at-a-time -march=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -DKBUILD_BASE
NAME=nvidia -DKBUILD_MODNAME=nvidia -DMODULE -c -o /appc/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86
-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o /appc/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pk
g1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.c
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o /appc/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv
idia.ko /appc/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o /appc/ke
rnel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
make: *** [package-install] Error 1

# dmesg
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE

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