173 + 2.6.27 Ubuntu Intrepid

[tseliot]

Hi all, Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 has switched to kernel 2.6.27 and, as the maintainer of the nvidia packages in Ubuntu, I'm trying to make sure that at least driver 173.14.12 and 177.68 work with the new kernel.

On the same 177.68 works without any patch while 173.14.12 doesn't. If I try to apply the changes in this patch suggested by Zander to 173.14.12 I get the following error when I try to modprobe the kernel module:

Aug 27 08:55:53 intrepid-32 klogd: [   16.103457] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  173.14.12  Thu Jul 17 18:11:36 PDT 2008
Aug 27 17:56:44 intrepid-32 klogd: [   16.049427] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  173.14.12  Thu Jul 17 18:11:36 PDT 2008
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.816010] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.816010] NVRM: BAR1 is 3584M @ 0x00000000 (PCI:0001:00.0)
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.816010] NVRM: This is a 64-bit BAR, which some Linux kernels are known to
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.816010] NVRM: ignore or handle incorrectly. Please see the README section
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.816010] NVRM: on 64-bit BARs for more information.
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.820012] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
Aug 27 22:56:42 intrepid-32 klogd: [  293.820012] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!

Any ideas?

[zander]

Does this happen consistently with 173.14.12 (even across reboots), whereas 177.68 is consistently fine? Does 177.68 still work after 173.14.12 has failed (without a reboot)?

[tseliot]

Problem solved. It works well with this patch

Thanks for your time.