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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-05-09 22:57, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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.

Good.

>> If this module does work, purge and reinstall dkms.
>> Remove my package and reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms.
> 
> And this did not.

Still testing with 2.6.32-2-amd64?

Do you have binutils-gold installed? Which version? Purge it.

> 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.

Does Xorg.*.log* contain anything helpful after the crash?

How usable is the system after the Oops? Console? Ssh? ...


Andreas