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| Newer page: | version 13 | Last edited on Saturday, March 13, 2004 4:48:57 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 12 | Last edited on Sunday, March 7, 2004 5:25:51 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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(Lazy RedHatLinux users can see KernelNotes for prepackaged RH kernels).
!!Nvidia notes
-Nvidia do
not support 2.5/2.6-test kernels yet. If you want to use the kernel accelerated driver
(which if you have an Nvidia card you almost certainly do) you will need to head over to
[http://minion.de] and grab their patches to
the NVIDIA-kernel driver.
[2]
+Originally,
Nvidia did
not support 2.5/2.6-test kernels - patches
([http://minion.de]) were required for
the NVIDIA-kernel driver [2]. Nvidia drivers [version 1.-5336|http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.-5336.html] and later support 2.6 kernels.
!! ModuleInitTools
Starting with 2.5.51, Linus merged a new way of handling modules. He's added versioning on every symbol inside a module, with the intent that the kernel can read the module and what hooks it uses, compare it to an internal database of whats critical and whats not, and can decide whether the module could be used even if it wasnt compiled specifically for the current running kernel. This adds a lot more flexibility for people forced to run binary-only proprietary modules to support their hardware. What this means for the user is a completely rewritten set of module tools (modprobe(8), insmod(8), lsmod(8)). On [Debian] you can get these with a quick
