Peter Velichkov's Blog

Another big surprise rolled out from the Debian Unstable repository when today I updated my kernel from 2.6.25-1 to 2.6.25-2 - the maintainers have enabled Xen in the non-Xen kernel (linux-image-2.6.25-2-686). The result from this is that Nvidia drivers don’t compile throwing error about Xen enabled kernel.

The solution (if you don’t want to recompile your own kernel) :

As usual backup before executing any of these

1. cd /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686 (or wherever are your modules)
2. grep CONFIG_XEN . -Rl | xargs -i sed -i -e ’s/CONFIG_XEN/CONFIG_LUPO/g’ {}
3. export IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1
4. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run (or you can use patched 169.12 - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088 )

Source: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: nVidia driver fails to compile due to active Xen support

We received couple of requests for the legacy drivers too, so here you go guys : http://grizach.servebeer.com/nvpatch

Also we summed the access logs from all the mirrors and we found out that we have more than 10 000 downloads.

Cheers

Again on nvpatch home page you can find the most recent Nvidia driver patched for linux kernel 2.6.21

Enjoy!

Kuangwei pointed out that the current servebeer links do not work. This is due to the reason that the servebeer server has stopped redirecting properly to sc18.info which is the temporary domain for Nvidia patched drivers for Linux kernels 2.6.21 and 2.6.20 with paravirtualization turned on.

Will try fixing it today - stay tuned

Thanks Kuangwei

update : fixed (10x Jul)