Bug#625761: nvidia-kernel-dkms: unusable; oopses on module load

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:16:59PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2011-05-09 18:39, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 05:51:40PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> >> Have you tried different Kernels? e.g. 2.6.39-rcX from experimental,
> >> 2.6.32-* from stable?
> > 
> > 2.6.32-5-amd64 crashes as well.  I'll try 2.6.39-rc6 once I nab a working
> > kbuild.
> 
> See http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage

Of course, it's just that jumping through all those hoops is tedious.

> There is a script build-linux-kbuild.sh
> In http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624297 is a patch
> that adds support for -rcX kernels to the build-linux-kbuild.sh script.

Now that script is an improvement, but I still don't see a reason the kbuild
for experimental kernels isn't placed somewhere (like experimental).

Anyway, I've built 2.6.39-rc6 with both gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.6.

And nvidia-kernel 270.41.06-1 oopses on both :(

> In case you are concerned that your build system is somehow borked, I
> can send you a tested (as in "I'm currently running it") prebuilt module
> package for 2.6.32-5-amd64.

I think that at least the toolchain is working, with the amount of
[re]builds of various stuff I've been doing recently.  So it's probably
something else.

Of course, with no obvious ideas, trying your module can't hurt, I'm just
doubtful it can help.

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