[PlanetCCRMA] akmods planetccrma

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed May 6 10:26:20 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:59 -0400, Juan Reyes wrote:
> Hi Nando,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> > Interesting. This is the fglrx module trying to use an internal symbol
> > in the kernel that kernel developers have marked as "GPL only", that is,
> > that it should only be used by GPL licensed modules. Not much can be
> > done other than changing the kernel to accept that symbol lookup, I
> > don't know if I would do that (apparently fglrx should not do what it is
> > doing). 
> > 
> 
> Out of curiosity, how does Fedora stock Kernel gets around this issue?.

It probably does not. I imagine this change might be recent and only the
recent kernels are incompatible. Or maybe older kernels had a patch for
this and it has been removed but that would surprise me. 

> Is this happening on the Nvidia kmod also?.

I don't know what the problem with the nvidia might be. I have not seen
any error messages from the failures. 

-- Fernando




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