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nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 package

nvidia needs a small patch for Jaunty kernel 2.6.28

Bug #303107 reported by Anders Kaseorg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Alberto Milone

Bug Description

The nvidia driver is broken by some kernel API changes in 2.6.28:
* Some headers moved from include to arch/x86/include
* acpi_driver_data(device) changed from a macro to a function and no longer yields an lvalue

Attached is a patch extracted from the Mandriva SRPM:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/10251610/com/dkms-nvidia-current-177.80-4mdv2009.0.i586.rpm.html

The conftest changes in this patch looks like they will break compilation on older kernels, so the patch may need to be modified for the Ubuntu package.

Until a fixed nvidia package is released, you can apply the attached patch in the /usr/src/nvidia-177.80 directory and invoke `sudo /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller start` to get a working nvidia driver.

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :
Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-177:
assignee: nobody → albertomilone
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Dean Loros (autocrosser) wrote :

This patch did not work for me--will retry later today. Fully updated Jaunty as of 29-11-08

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

Dean: Are you running kernel 2.6.28? It is not currently installed by default in Jaunty; you need to install the linux-image-2.6.28-1-ub-generic package yourself.

Anyway, it turns out that the nvidia 180.08 beta driver already works on kernel 2.6.28, so a patch won’t be necessary if that gets into Jaunty.

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Dean Loros (autocrosser) wrote :

I have downloaded it--have talked to Alberto about the status of the DKMS 180 driver--don't really want to "roll-my-own" been down that path too many times over the years.....Tried the patch again with no result, so I'll wait til the Official driver to come out---I'm sure that Alberto has it under development.

Thank you for the advisement.

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

I now have 180.08 packages in my PPA, if you want to try them. I also ported linux-restricted-modules to 2.6.28.

<https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive>

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Dean Loros (autocrosser) wrote :

Sounds very good---I'll give them a try.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 - 177.82-0ubuntu2

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 (177.82-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add debian.binary/patches/NVIDIA-177.82_2.6.28.patch to ensure compatibility
    with 2.6.28 kernels (LP: #303107)

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:08:53 +0100

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-177:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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