fedora-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 79

[Ian Hilliard]

> Message: 14
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:26:44 +0100
> From: Brun <brun at nork.auc.dk>
> Subject: Fedora core 3 and nvidia
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1099992404.31975.1.camel at allan>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> I am having some problem with my new fedora core 3 (upgrade from core 2)
> and my nvidia driver. Somehow I have to re-install the nvidia driver
> using the install script every time I do a reboot or else X will not
> start. Please help.
> -- 
> Brun <brun at nork.auc.dk>
> 

I built the 2.6.9 kernel a few weeks back and discovered that there is a
problem with the 2.6.9 kernel and the nVidia driver. A quick google
brought up a patch that can be be put on the kernel that permits it to
load the nVidia driver. 

I don't know if this will work on the FC3 kernel, but it may be worth a
try.

--- begin patch ---
--- arch/i386/mm/init.c      2004-09-26 03:43:57.944613000 +1000
+++ arch/i386/mm/init.c       2004-09-28 02:37:21.787922000 +1000
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <asm/sections.h>

 unsigned int __VMALLOC_RESERVE = 128 << 20;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__VMALLOC_RESERVE);

 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gathers);
 unsigned long highstart_pfn, highend_pfn;

--- end patch ---

Regards,
Ian