2.6.9-final breaks Nvidia Driver 6111

[sk545]

I would *think* thats its better to patch the driver, rather than the kernel, no? Not a expert in this....

Is this the patch for the driver?:
http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?...nvidia-drivers

[freelsjd]

The modified installation tar here

http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?...nvidia-drivers

fixed the problem for me on two Debian/Sid/i386 machines, one a dual Xeon. Thanks for this patch ! If we had to wait as long as we did last time for nvidia to update their "official" driver, we would be waiting a long time to use the new 2.6.9 kernel.

working great here...

[ghostwalker]

Here is a new one with patch-2.6.8-bk4, nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class, is produce as an error while compiling the video driver now.

Walt

[Gogiel]

Originally Posted by ghostwalker

There is a patch floating around on gentoo I think? I am using a patched version myself, it is 6106 though. I just can not remember where I got the patch from I will do some googling about and find it for you.

Walt

Edit: I found the patch file.

http://kernel.damouse.co.uk/nvidia-k...111-r3.tar.bz2

1. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --extract-only
2. bzip2 -dc nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3.tar.bz2 | patch -p1, I think you might have to be in the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv directory to apply the patch?

root@NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1#cd usr/src/nv/
root@nv#bzip2 -dc nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3.tar.bz2 | patch -p1
missing header for unified diff at line 234 of patch
patching file nv.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1262 (offset 37 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 3503 with fuzz 2 (offset -14 lines).
Hunk #3 FAILED at 3554.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 3578.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 3597.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 3614.
4 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file nv.c.rej
missing header for unified diff at line 354 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 354
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.6111/.svn/text-base/fix_pci_find_class.patch.svn-base0100444000077100007740000000552710127103705030773 0ustar  damousedamouse--- conftest.sh.old   2004-09-15 10:57:44.000000000 +1000
|+++ conftest.sh        2004-09-15 11:48:52.561314384 +1000
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File to patch:

[sk545]

Well, that driver patch from the blog works fine for me on Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.9-final. Just letting you all know how it went.