Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Nvidia Update Problem
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:03:37
Message-Id: 20120216175509.846b8c2b.frank.peters@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Nvidia Update Problem by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:34:24 +0200
2 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > The above error means that the kernel module that is currently loaded is
6 > the old one while the X driver is the new one. In other words, you only
7 > tried to restart X instead of rebooting the machine or terminating X,
8 > doing "modprobe -r nvidia" and then restarting X.
9 >
10 > Contrary to other posts, you do NOT need to rebuild your kernel. You
11 > only need to load the new kernel module.
12 >
13 >
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15 Yes, that is exactly what had happened. I have my own X start script
16 that checks for an already loaded nvidia module and it does not load
17 the new module if the old module is loaded. After emerging the new
18 nvidia module, I had just shutdown X and then immediately restarted X
19 which kept the old module (at least until the next reboot).
20
21 Frank Peters