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

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:14:03PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Prebuilt kernel module for the official Debian squeeze 2.6.32-2-amd64
> kernel and nvidia 270.41.06 driver.
> Remove nvidia-kernel-dkms to make sure the dkms modules are no longer
> available and loaded instead of this one.

After downgrading the kernel to 2.6.32 your module worked without the oops.

> If this module does work, purge and reinstall dkms.
> Remove my package and reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms.

And this did not.

Although, I noticed that mere modprobe does not cause the oops anymore, I
need to actually attempt to start X.  Since the latter takes less effort
(just trying to boot normally), I did not notice when this changed.  At
least with the current kernel in sid (2.6.38-2) the module can be loaded and
unloaded without any ill effects.

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