general question: xorg & Nvdriver

[Stephane Marchesin]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:43, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Stephane Marchesin
> <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
>> 2009/1/28 Florian Lier <fl0 at icram.de>:
>>> Okay, new problem:
>>>
>>> I tried to "insmod" the nvdriver...this is the result:
>>>
>>> insmod: error inserting 'drm/linux-core/nv.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> There is no nv.ko module. There is a nouveau.ko module, an nvidia.ko
>> proprietary module, but no nv module.
>
> There is an nv.ko, but it is a useless placeholder that exists for
> unknown reasons.
>

It existed a couple of months before nouveau and was intended to help
extend nv to do exa. However, this never happened. So technically
today that module is useless. Maybe we should remove it from git
someday.

Stephane