nvidia-304xx is broken

fedora2015 fedora2015 at videotron.ca
Mon Feb 1 03:31:18 CET 2016


On 01/31/2016 11:50 AM, 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)
>
>

Yep, I have the same problem. Tried dnf erase *nvidia* and then 
re-installed, tried forcing the installation...nothing works...


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