Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:29:10
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0511242227040.14676@melchior.nuitari.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion by "P.V.Anthony"
1 >> when re-emerging nvidia-kernel i got the warning:
2 >> WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2-adapted/video/nvidia.ko needs
3 >> WARNING: unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
4 >> WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2-adapted/video/nvidia.ko needs
5 >> WARNING: unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
6 >>
7 >> "modprobe nvidia" got the following output in dmesg:
8 >> nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
9 >> nvidia: Unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
10 >
11 > I got this similar problem with my promise raid card driver. It seems that
12 > kernel 2.6.14 do not support that symbol anymore.
13 >
14 > For my case I am using only 64bit so I just commented it out in the source.
15 > And
16 > it seems to work for me.
17 >
18 > Please note that I am not a programmer at all. Please proceed with caution.
19
20 I have the 2.6.14 and nvidia and it works well.
21 Maybe you need to enable IA32 support in your kernel
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion - solved Robert Walter <ro-wa@×××.at>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com>