NVIDIA-6111 with FC3-test3

[Andrew Farris]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 14:31 -0400, Nave, Ronald wrote:
> I  just finished building the latest kernel.org  2.6.9-rc4-bk2
> kernel .
> 
> Before building the kernel I edited the kernel source to add
> 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__VMALLOC_RESERVE); 
> 
> to the kernel source.
> 
> The kernel compiled successfully.

This is the wrong method to correct this problem, IMO this method should
be used since the value of __VMALLOC_RESERVE the driver expects can be
defined constant (since it was constant in the past anyway this should
work unless you change the value at boot).  See posts on LKML for why
this is no longer exposed (cause its not supposed to be in the first
place).
http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?2004/09/21/3-patched-nvidia-drivers

> However, when I tried to start it I got a kernel panic  associated with
> "unable to load  device-mapper library"

I don't actually think this is related, but I only tinker with the
kernel.  In any case, rebuilding the Fedora kernel is preferred for
testing (which is 2.6.9-rc4-bk1 in kernel 2.6.8-1.610).

-andrew