Getting this error message after you’ve compiled the nvidia video module and try to load it:<\/p>\n
FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘paravirt_ops’<\/font><\/p>\n This happens because paravirtualisation is enabled in these kernels, and causes the kernel to only allow GPL modules to build:<\/p>\n What happens is that when paravirtualization support is turned on many functions in the kernel call implicitly paravirt_ops – function marked as GPL only. One of these functions is udelay – function that makes a program stay idle for some period of time. And the nvidia driver uses udelay (I can’t imagine a driver that won’t use udelay somehow) and therefore you can not compile the driver normally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This only happens if your running a 2.6.20 or 2.6.21 kernel on Debian.<\/em> The quick fix (at least for me) is to upgrade to a 2.6.22 kernel and make sure you’ve upgraded nvidia-glx also. Alternatively, you can patch your kernel, see here<\/a> for more detail and for links to patched verisons of the nvidia driver: Getting this error message after you’ve compiled the nvidia video module and try to load it: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘paravirt_ops’ This happens because paravirtualisation is enabled in these kernels, and causes the kernel to only allow GPL modules to build: What happens is that when paravirtualization support is turned on … Continue reading Debian & Nvidia & Kernels 2.6.20\/21<\/span>
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