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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

I think this is the patch you need to fix that.
It is what I had to apply to the 6111 driver to get it to work with
newer kernels.

CuZnDragon

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:29 +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> I am using 1.0-6111 with test grimoire and devel sorcery.
> 
> This seemed to work ok in 2.6.9-rc2.
> 
> My card is a GeForce2MX as well.
> 
> Craig
> 
> Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
> 
> >Am Sonntag, 12. Dezember 2004 11:07 schrieb Craig Dyke:
> >  
> >
> >>Howdy
> >>
> >>Is anyone else having problems with the nvidia_driver and 2.6.10-rc3
> >>kernel?
> >>
> >>I seem to get the following when I cast -c nvidia_driver:
> >>
> >>nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> >>nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
> >>nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class
> >>
> >>Just curious if only me?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >uh - which version of the driver?
> >
> >would have to do some test builds, but if i remember correctly it is the 
> >same 
> >that you get with driver 1.0-6111 and kernel 2.6.9 unless you use the 
> >patch...
> >... but then nividia released 1.0-6629 which works fine with 2.6.9
> >
> >However, i just noticed that one did roll back the driver in test because 
> >of 
> >issues with TNT cards...
> >
> >Actually i remember the nvidia driver being way less stable on my old TNT1 
> >and 
> >TNT2 cards than on my GForce2MX, but that is quite some time ago. Can 
> >anyone 
> >tell me how well the drivers did work on TNT cards in the last year?
> >
> >The point is: i doubt that there will be a new driver soon, and i doubt 
> >that a 
> >new driver will work perfectly with that old cards. What shall we do?
> >
> >
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--- NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c.sav 2004-11-13 05:52:26.0000
00000 -0800
+++ NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c 2004-11-13 05:57:46.0000
00000 -0800
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@

/* prevent the swapper from swapping it out */
/* mark the memory i/o so the buffers aren't dumped on core dumps */
- vma->vm_flags |= (VM_LOCKED | VM_IO);
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO;
}

/* Magic allocator */
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@

/* prevent the swapper from swapping it out */
/* mark the memory i/o so the buffers aren't dumped on core dumps */
- vma->vm_flags |= (VM_IO | VM_LOCKED);
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO;
}

vma->vm_file = file;

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