FC5: more trouble building nvidia-kmod from livna

[Kam Leo]

On 9/11/06, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> Apologies for starting a new thread on this but it's really a new
> problem (and I was embarrassed every time I saw my misspelled "touble"
> in the subject line of the followups :-)
>
> Lonni Friedman writes:
> : The nvidia X driver will not work with the FC5 '2054' kernel, as that
> : kernel bans non-GPL'd symbols.
>
> I suppose that this is why, after spending a couple of hours trying
> to build the .rpm's, writing and reading messages to this board, and
> finally getting the .rpm's to build on my machine, I'm rewarded for my
> efforts with:
>
> rpm -ivh *.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:nvidia-kmod-debuginfo  ########################################### [ 25%]
>    2:kmod-nvidia-smp        ########################################### [ 50%]
>    3:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia    ########################################### [ 75%]
> FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>    4:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-dev########################################### [100%]
>
>
> At all events, thanks, Lonni, for preventing another few hours wasted
> in trying to track this one down.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Is this something unique to the 2.6.15_1.2054_FC5 kernel?
>    I ask because I never saw this error when building the nvidia
>    kernel module and X driver on older kernels (under Mandrake).
>
> 2) Is there a work-around for this kernel?  Was nobody who ran the
>    stock FC5 kernel able to run the nvidia driver until a later kernel
>    came out?
>
> I need to remain on this kernel for a bit until I can carefully test
> its suspend/resume behaviour.  I also need the nvidia driver
> to clean up several image processing issues I'm having (crucial to my
> work) due to running the stock nv driver.
>

Why? I was under the impression that the current kernel had fixes for
suspend/resume issues present in older versions.

>
> Help, as always, is appreciated.
> Thanks
> Dean