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On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen |
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> I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of |
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> nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This |
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> is in spite of not having been able to unload the old nvidia module |
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> because it was "in use". |
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I've noticed that running the NVIDIA installation program manually puts |
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the resulting nvidia.ko in a different directory than when using emerge to |
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do the install. |
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So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA install program manually, you probably |
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have two different nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules, and the wrong one gets |
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loaded automatically at boot time. Re-emerging nvidia-drivers will build |
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*and* load the correct kernel module each time you do it. |
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May not be your problem but it's easy to check, at least. |
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