What require eeprom module [WAS: Re: *Serious* security problem with nVidia binary driver is New driver working?]

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/23/06, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman a écrit :
> > On 10/23/06, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Lonni J Friedman a écrit :
> >> > On 10/16/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > This bug was fixed in NVIDIA's 1.0-9625 driver release (last month):
> >> >> > http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html
> >> >>
> >> >> This isn't what the advisory says:
> >> >>
> >> >>   Published:  Oct 16, 2006
> >> >>     Revision:   1.0
> >> >>     http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp
> >> >> ...
> >> >>     KNOWN FIXED:
> >> >>      o None
> >> >> ...
> >> >>     As of the publication date, the latest NVIDIA binary driver is
> >> still
> >> >>     vulnerable.
> >> >>
> >> >> Maybe they discount the version you linked to because it calls
> >> itself a
> >> >> beta.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Bonjour,
> >>
> >> I just tried to compile and install 9625 version of nvidia driver
> >> (downloaded from nvidia web site).
> >>
> >> No problem to compile, no problem to install.... but not working: screen
> >> remains black while booting in level 5 or in level 3 then using startx...
> >>
> >> does anybody have the same problem?
> >
> >
> > See:
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=996233&postcount=20
>
> Thank you! It is now working. I removed the eeprom module. What is this
> module? I put it in my /etc/rc.local after running sensors-detect but it
> seems to be unused by my system... I had alse to disable lm_sensors
> services to prevent the loading of this module, so I don't know for what
> these services are useful.

eeprom is used for SMBUS.  You could have also just applied the patch
instead of disabling eeprom.


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