Bug 188937

Summary:	nvidia driver needs symbol xen_tlb_flush
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sietse Visser <sietse>
Component:	kernel-xen	Assignee:	Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version:	5	CC:	axel.thimm, bolek-vendor, bstein
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Description Sietse Visser 2006-04-13 19:52:39 UTC

Description of problem: nvidia graphics driver fails to load on Xen kernel

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nvidia 8756

How reproducible: every time. 
Works fine on non-xen kernel.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe nvidia
  
Actual results:
Apr 13 21:05:48 prefect kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol xen_tlb_flush
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia_1_0_8756
(/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2080_FC5xen0/updates/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia-1_0-8756.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

In /var/log/messages:
Apr 13 21:05:48 prefect kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Apr 13 21:05:48 prefect kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol xen_tlb_flush


Expected results: loaded module

Comment 1 Sietse Visser 2006-04-18 14:40:17 UTC

Someone got it working with some patches:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68648

Hope this is helpful.

Sietse

Comment 2 Boleslaw Ciesielski 2006-10-10 21:20:42 UTC

See also discussion in http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=784

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-07-25 01:31:11 UTC

change QA contact

Comment 4 Chris Lalancette 2008-02-26 23:03:34 UTC

This report targets FC5, which is now end-of-life.

Please re-test against Fedora 7 or later, and if the issue persists, open a new bug.

Thanks