The 2.6.6 kernel and nvidia

[hard candy]

"Current NVIDIA driver releases will not work reliably on kernels configured to use 4K kernel stacks; users of recent Fedora Core Test releases are affected by this problem and will need to rebuild the distribution kernel with the force-4K stacks patch reverted.

Linux 2.6.6 introduces the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option, which must not be enabled if the NVIDIA driver is to be used. "

minion.de (http://www.minion.de/)
has some patches for Fedoracore2 users, for the other 2.6 kernels, where they are using the 4k stacks.

[gehidore]

OR

you can go to nvidia.com and download the beta driver, it works fine.

gentoo users need to do this.

thanks hayl for walking me through this.


mkdir /etc/portage
nano /etc/portage/package.keywords

add these lines

media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86

save it.

emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx

you should be set then

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by gehidore
you can go to nvidia.com and download the beta driver, it works fine. Eh? Am I blind? Because I don't see any beta driver for Linux anywhere on nVidia's site... where do you see it?

I do have to patch the driver to support sysfs properly (so that my udev setup creates nVidia's device nodes). I got the patch from http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php#nvidia, which referred me to this (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107564944926119&w=2) post to LKML -- and note that the issue with EXTRA_CFLAGS that's mentioned didn't seem to be a problem for me. But then, I'm using a standard kernel, without crazy force-4K-stack options... :p

[gehidore]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Eh? Am I blind? Because I don't see any beta driver for Linux anywhere on nVidia's site... where do you see it?


ehh mabe im just def.

i was told thats what i needed to do... sorry, but the later suggestion works.