On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:34:08 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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_GPL macro, which was designed to block the loading of > > any kernel module not explicitly licensed as GPL 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 I've skimmed some of your threads involving initrd (maybe raid?) but I don't participate in them because I don't use either initrd or raid so I have nothing to offer. If your problems are caused by non-loading kernel modules, though, it should be easy to find out by running modinfo -l on each kernel module. Here is the cause of my problem this morning: #modinfo -l /lib/modules/3.18.19-gentoo/video/fglrx.ko Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY BTW, I post-edited a typo I made in the text you quoted: I typed SYMBOL_EXPORT_GNU when I really meant SYMBOL_EXPORT_GPL. I could have typed SYMBOL_EXPORT_RMS because I conflate the three into one synonym :)
