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On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, |
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> walt did opine thusly: |
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> > So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA install program manually, you |
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> > probably have two different nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules, and |
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> > the wrong one gets loaded automatically at boot time. Re-emerging |
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> > nvidia-drivers will build *and* load the correct kernel module |
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> > 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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I didn't think I'd ever run the nVidia installation program, and on |
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checking I see one nvidia.ko for each kernel version I have installed, |
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so that isn't the problem. |
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> module-rebuild takes care of all that nicely. |
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And it wants to rebuild the module again, even though I only remerged it |
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yesterday. |
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Something is messing about with the nVidia module. |
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Thanks for the ideas, gents. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |
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