nvidia-304xx broken with new kernel
Robin Laing
MeSat at TelusPlanet.net
Sat Jan 30 04:19:11 UTC 2016
On 29/01/16 13:50, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> The latest two kernels and the nvidia-304xx module are incompatible.
> That is, the nvidia.ko module built by akmod-nvidia-304xx won't load.
> That means that my three machines with older nvidia video cards (one
> built into the mobo) are stuck running the old
>
>> kernel-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-4.3.3-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64
>
> In the past, incompatibilities were resolved in about a week.
> This time, it's nearly a month. No new package of akmod-nvidia-304xx
> or kmod-nvidia-304xx has shown up at the
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates[-testing] repo.
> The akmod-nvidia-340xx module on another machine that needs it runs fine.
> Does anyone have a clue when this older version of the nvidia module
> might be fixed?
>
> Here are the error messages with the newer kernel:
>
> Console error message when trying to run 'startxfce':
>
> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Unknown symbol in module,
> or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
>
> From dmesg:
>
> ...
> [ 12.563315] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> [ 12.563325] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [ 12.573867] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
> [ 12.573977] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
> ...
> [ 31.162308] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
> [ 31.162397] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
> ...
> [ 81.656643] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
> [ 81.656736] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
>
>
You may be better talking to rpmfusion for this problem. Not a Fedora
package.
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