Andreas Klauer wrote:

>> dmesg is: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. nvidia:
>> Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
>
> For x86 systems, add the following in arch/i386/mm/init.c in line 44:
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__VMALLOC_RESERVE);
>
> Then recompile the kernel. Fixed the problem for me. It would probably
> be better to patch the nvidia kernel glue code instead, but I can't do
> that.

I have no line remotely resembling that, but nvidia works just fine
here. These are my kernel and driver versions:

sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.9
media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2
media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6111

Either use a newer driver or drop the Gentoo kernel. Having to manually
patch your kernel should never be required ...

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