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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:34:08 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> walt wrote: |
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> > Affirmative, and thereby hangs yet another woeful tale. I've been |
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> > running the gentoo-sources-3.14.xx series forever because I wearied |
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> > of spending so many hours debugging unstable kernels. This morning I |
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> > decided to take a giant leap forward all the way to 3.18.19 (BTW |
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> > 3.18.20 is already on kernel.org) because, surely, I wouldn't need |
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> > to debug a kernel as old as that, right? Wrong. Linus and friends |
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> > have been marking lots of existing kernel symbols with the |
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> > SYMBOL_EXPORT_GPL macro, which was designed to block the loading of |
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> > any kernel module not explicitly licensed as GPL software. (see |
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> > output of modinfo) x11-drivers/ati-drivers installs a proprietary |
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> > binary blob (as does nvidia-drivers) so the linker refused even to |
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> > link the kernel module into a .ko file, nevermind the kernel |
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> > actually loading the module at runtime. The remedy for ati-drivers |
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> > is well-hidden in a comment in a gentoo bug report that I found at |
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> > oh-dark-hundred hours this morning. Only two hours later I got the |
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> > module installed and loaded :) But yes, kernel 3.18.19 still has my |
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> > same keyboard halting problem, so I'm back to 3.14.50 until the |
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> > ati-drivers package is patched. I'm sure gentoo-sources-3.18.20 |
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> > will be available almost immediately and I'm not going through that |
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> > hell again. |
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> Interesting info. I haven't been able to get new kernels to work |
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> either. I wonder if this is why. o_O |
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I've skimmed some of your threads involving initrd (maybe raid?) but I |
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don't participate in them because I don't use either initrd or raid so |
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I have nothing to offer. |
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If your problems are caused by non-loading kernel modules, though, it |
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should be easy to find out by running modinfo -l on each kernel module. |
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Here is the cause of my problem this morning: |
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#modinfo -l /lib/modules/3.18.19-gentoo/video/fglrx.ko |
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Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY |
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BTW, I post-edited a typo I made in the text you quoted: I typed |
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SYMBOL_EXPORT_GNU when I really meant SYMBOL_EXPORT_GPL. I could have |
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typed SYMBOL_EXPORT_RMS because I conflate the three into one synonym :) |
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