walt wrote: > Affirmative, and thereby hangs yet another woeful tale. I've been > running the gentoo-sources-3.14.xx series forever because I wearied of > spending so many hours debugging unstable kernels. This morning I > decided to take a giant leap forward all the way to 3.18.19 (BTW > 3.18.20 is already on kernel.org) because, surely, I wouldn't need to > debug a kernel as old as that, right? Wrong. Linus and friends have > been marking lots of existing kernel symbols with the > SYMBOL_EXPORT_GNU macro, which was designed to block the loading of > any kernel module not explicitly licensed as GNU software. (see output > of modinfo) x11-drivers/ati-drivers installs a proprietary binary blob > (as does nvidia-drivers) so the linker refused even to link the kernel > module into a .ko file, nevermind the kernel actually loading the > module at runtime. The remedy for ati-drivers is well-hidden in a > comment in a gentoo bug report that I found at oh-dark-hundred hours > this morning. Only two hours later I got the module installed and > loaded :) But yes, kernel 3.18.19 still has my same keyboard halting > problem, so I'm back to 3.14.50 until the ati-drivers package is > patched. I'm sure gentoo-sources-3.18.20 will be available almost > immediately and I'm not going through that hell again.
Interesting info. I haven't been able to get new kernels to work either. I wonder if this is why. o_O Dale :-) :-)
