Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Robert Walter <ro-wa@×××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion - solved
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:56:28
Message-Id: 200511250654.52455.ro-wa@gmx.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion by Nuitari
1 hi
2 i emerged the masked nvidia module; that worked.
3 if it's stable, i leave it like that, otherwise i try to comment it out as
4 anthony suggested. ia32 support already activated.
5 nonetheless, thanks a lot.
6 best regards. robert
7
8 On Friday 25 November 2005 04:27, Nuitari wrote:
9 > >> when re-emerging nvidia-kernel i got the warning:
10 > >> WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2-adapted/video/nvidia.ko needs
11 > >> WARNING: unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
12 > >> WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r2-adapted/video/nvidia.ko needs
13 > >> WARNING: unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
14 > >>
15 > >> "modprobe nvidia" got the following output in dmesg:
16 > >> nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
17 > >> nvidia: Unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
18 > >
19 > > I got this similar problem with my promise raid card driver. It seems
20 > > that kernel 2.6.14 do not support that symbol anymore.
21 > >
22 > > For my case I am using only 64bit so I just commented it out in the
23 > > source. And
24 > > it seems to work for me.
25 > >
26 > > Please note that I am not a programmer at all. Please proceed with
27 > > caution.
28 >
29 > I have the 2.6.14 and nvidia and it works well.
30 > Maybe you need to enable IA32 support in your kernel
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