Debian Wheezy: intel driver conflicts with compat-drivers

Debian Wheezy: intel driver conflicts with compat-drivers

[Camaleón]

Hello,

After compiling the compat-drivers (thanks to this mailing list 
support) I was unable to load the generated kernel module. It failed 
with a succinct message:

***
ERROR: could not insert 'alx': Exec format error
***

But dmesg showed more:

***
compat: exports duplicate symbol i2c_bit_algo (owned by i2c_algo_bit)
***

After restartig the system, gnome-shell crashed because Xorg loaded the
VESA driver. I did not join the points until I found a related bug 
report at Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703142#51

And then was "pointed" to ask you :-)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703142#71

True is that I was able to compile and load "compat-drivers" with no 
problems at all from another system with no Intel card on it, so here
I am. 

Is is a known problem? Is there a workaround for Intel VGA-based 
systems?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón 

Re: Debian Wheezy: intel driver conflicts with compat-drivers

[Ozan Çağlayan]

>
> ***
> compat: exports duplicate symbol i2c_bit_algo (owned by i2c_algo_bit)
> ***

Hi,

I'm not quite sure how Luis, Hauke tend to fix this but I think
i2c_bit_algo should have been backported and renamed to sth different.
Am I right?



--
Ozan Çağlayan
Research Assistant
Galatasaray University - Computer Engineering Dept.
http://www.ozancaglayan.com

Re: Debian Wheezy: intel driver conflicts with compat-drivers

[Camaleón]

El 2013-03-17 a las 20:07 +0200, Ozan Çağlayan escribió:

> > ***
> > compat: exports duplicate symbol i2c_bit_algo (owned by i2c_algo_bit)
> > ***
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not quite sure how Luis, Hauke tend to fix this but I think
> i2c_bit_algo should have been backported and renamed to sth different.
> Am I right?

I don't know, but tried with the latests compat-drivers¹ and still get 
the above error in dmesg when loading the drivers.

¹https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2013/03/15/compat-drivers-2013-03-15-u.tar.bz2

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón