New kernel 2.6.8-1.598 and Nvidia

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:33 +0200, Lars wrote:
> a lot of people with kernel > 2.6.9-rc2-bk3
> had this problem i think.
> here http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?2004/09/21/3-patched-nvidia-drivers
> is the patched one that should work ok.
> 
> best
> lars
> 

This does work with kernel-2.6.8-1.603 ( Rebase to 2.6.9-rc3-bk7 ) as
well, it is making a simple change to the driver source file 'nv.c' to
define the symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE.  More info is around sources like
the gentoo forums and nvnews.net forums.  This is a dirty hack and
nvidia will have to change the way they interact with the kernel later,
till then we deal with it this way.  This method should continue to
work, but I think so far its unclear whether it will cause issues for
some systems.

> 
> Tatxe wrote:
> 
> > I was upgraded to the new kernel but I can't compile the Nvidia driver
> > for the new kernel.
> > 
> > The error message was: "No kernel-source found"
> > 
> > What I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > I was looking in bugzilla but I cant' find anything
> >