nvidia-304xx is broken
Sérgio Basto
sergio at serjux.com
Mon Feb 1 00:43:03 CET 2016
Hi,
On Dom, 2016-01-31 at 11:50 -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> I wrote the inquiry below to the fedora users maillinglist
> but there was no response except a suggestion to ask here,
> so this is it.
>
> Since writing the text below, another Fedora 23
> kernel-4.3.3-303.fc23.x86_64 made an appearance, along with a new
> kmod-nvidia-304xx-4.3.3-303.fc23.x86_64-304.131-1.fc23.x86_64
> but they exhibit the identical fault.
>
> ******
> The latest two kernels and the nvidia-304xx module are incompatible.
> That is, the nvidia.ko module built by akmod-nvidia-304xx won't load.
> That means that my three machines with older nvidia video cards (one
> built into the mobo) are stuck running the old
>
> > kernel-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-4.3.3-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64
>
> In the past, incompatibilities were resolved in about a week.
> This time, it's nearly a month. No new package of akmod-nvidia-304xx
> or kmod-nvidia-304xx has shown up at the
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates[-testing] repo.
>
> The akmod-nvidia-340xx module on another machine that needs it runs
> fine.
>
> Does anyone have a clue when this older version of the nvidia module
> might be fixed?
>
> Here are the error messages with the newer kernel:
>
> Console error message when trying to run 'startxfce':
>
> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Unknown symbol in module,
> or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
>
> From dmesg:
>
> ...
> [ 12.563315] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> [ 12.563325] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [ 12.573867] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
> [ 12.573977] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
> ...
> [ 31.162308] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
> [ 31.162397] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
> ...
> [ 81.656643] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
> [ 81.656736] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
Is this bug https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3946 isn't
it ?
--
Sérgio M. B.
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