Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "P.V.Anthony" <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:38:49
Message-Id: 4386789F.30905@singnet.com.sg
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion by Robert Walter
1 Robert Walter wrote:
2 > hi
3 >
4 > i just emerged the new kernel sources (2.6.14-gentoo-r2) & compiled it.
5 > everything works fine except the nvidia module.
6 >
7 > when re-emerging nvidia-kernel i got the warning:
8 > WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2-adapted/video/nvidia.ko needs unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
9 > WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2-adapted/video/nvidia.ko needs unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
10 >
11 > "modprobe nvidia" got the following output in dmesg:
12 > nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
13 > nvidia: Unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
14
15 I got this similar problem with my promise raid card driver. It seems that
16 kernel 2.6.14 do not support that symbol anymore.
17
18 For my case I am using only 64bit so I just commented it out in the source. And
19 it seems to work for me.
20
21 Please note that I am not a programmer at all. Please proceed with caution.
22
23 P.V.Anthony
24
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