Alan Bartlett wrote: [...] > I don't use nVidia graphics cards and also should mention my > connection to the ELRepo Project "up front" but have you tried using > the kernel independent, kABI tracking kmod packages that the ELRepo > Project provides? [1]
We do use some NVIDIA's but mostly with 96xx legacy series driver (however we may start using the 195 current series on our future hardware): So far we use nvidia packages we maintain ourselves but it would be interesting for us to change this situation... Speaking of which I'm little bit confused about nvidia kernel modules and kABI: checking http://dup.et.redhat.com/ and using kABI testing script gives following result on your kmod-nvidia-190.53-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm, nvidia.ko: ./abi_check.py ./lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ABI Checker -------------------------------------- ABI Checker version: 1.2 Module: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko Kernel: 2.6.18-194.el5 Whitelist: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64/kabi_whitelist WARNING: The following symbols are used by your module WARNING: and are not on the ABI whitelist. symbol: acpi_walk_namespace symbol: agp_bridges symbol: acpi_get_handle symbol: acpi_os_wait_events_complete symbol: acpi_evaluate_object symbol: acpi_bus_get_device symbol: acpi_install_notify_handler symbol: acpi_evaluate_integer symbol: acpi_remove_notify_handler Are you using a different ABI Checker script ? .. since the version 1.2 does not seem to be happy about nvidia kernel modules here .... Best Regards Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok __________________ CERN - IT/OIS/ODS _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _
