Peter Jensen wrote:

> 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 ...

I went back to kernel-2.6.8 and got it working. I'll try 2.6.9 with the
newer nvidia drivers (was using 1.0.5331).

Bigbob
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