2.6.23 Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! [SOLVED]

dingfelder · Last edited by dingfelder on Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:48 pm; edited 1 time in total

I did an emerge world today and updated everything, including moving to the 2.6.23 kernel.

Booting to it works fine for console mode but X locks up with the following errors:

Xmist · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:03 am Post subject:

Can you show the xorg.conf where you have the nvidia configurations
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dingfelder · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:12 am Post subject:

Xmist · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:59 am Post subject:

Ok this might be stupid questions anyway here we go

What is your graphic cards?(maybe irreverent but you have alot of graphic cards listed)

Do you have a two video card set up like sli? or one with two ports?

Are you using the nvidia driver from the nvidia website or emerge (Not much of a big difference),

or using the kernel's or xorg's drivers (not sure if I worded this right)?

Are you trying to do a mono, dual or a multi monitor set up?(I can some what tell from the twin view option enable for multi)

I'm just trying to get a better understanding of your graphics system, so I'll know your approach.
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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5946

have you rebuilded the nvidia module against the new kernel which you have installed?
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whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

2 mistakes here, you want "glx" but not "GLcore"

dingfelder · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

dingfelder · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject:

When trying to rebuild it, I ran into issues with fuse not building so I am working through them now. Will post an update when I get past that
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dingfelder · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

ok, fixed now.

I had to enable fuse in my .config and rebuild the kernel, then do
FEATURES=-sandbox module-rebuild rebuild
instead of
module-rebuild rebuild

I have never had to do this before to build nvidia so hiopefully someone can sort this out so users dont have to add the FEATURES=-sandbox flag.
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