nvidia-304xx is broken

David A. De Graaf dad at datix.us
Sun Jan 31 17:50:29 CET 2016


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.

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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)




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