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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Well it appears that I have shot myself in the foot somehow.
>
> I have tried to re-cast 7676 of nvidia_driver spell under my 2.6.15-rc5
> kernel where this
> version had worked previously but to no avail.
>
> So my situation has worsened as I now have no X at all :(
>
> I have tried to cleanse -- fix, as suggested below, under both kernels.
> I have even tried upgrading
> to latest kernel, 2.6.16-rc5, but still no good.
>
> I found that the following error line:
>
> /usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c:1375:
> error: structure has no member named `rlim'
>
> could be removed in the code by remarking out some lines. This then
> installs okay but when the module loads
> gives an error relating to a previous warning about the remapping page
> being incorrect.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated?
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To get X working quickly you could switch from the 'nvidia' driver to
'nv' (from X, non-accelerated). I'd also recommend not using a -rc
kernel release if you're having problems, instead use a final version
(e.g. 2.6.15.4) and see if nvidia_driver will work with that.

- -sandalle

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