Nvidia-kernel problems

[gerard27]

I installed Gentoo 2005.0 recently.
This is not my first Gentto install.
I compiled the 2.6.11-r5 kernel and installed emerged the nvidia kernel.
The nvidia.ko module was in /lib/modules allright but X refused to come up.
Browsing the forums I understood I should have emerged nvidia-glx as well.
After doing that I finally was able to enjoy kde.
Not finished installing everything yet I decided to do an emerge --sync first.
I noticed that the 2.6.11-r5 gentoo-sources kernel source was gone.In the
ChangeLog I read that r4 and r5 were replaced by a stable x86 r6.
What would you do? I emerged the newer source and compiled it using the same
.config.When I rebooted : no more X.
I removed nvidia-kernel and re-emerged it,hoping that would solve the problem since
during the install you see some text to the effect that the kernel files are being checked
and so the module would come out correctly.
Still no dice!!
I did a dmesg and this is what it said:

[moocha]

It was solved not because you deleted distfiles, it was solved because the kernel module was recompiled while booted with the new kernel...
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[gerard27]

Apparently you donot know what happens after a linux kernel compile.
You have to reboot.And then you find X is gone,and then you re-emerge nvidia!
In other words I recompiled nvidia with the new kernel.I even did that twice!

[moocha]

Ugh. Brain fart on my part . Got it ass-backwards.
Hm... Are you sure that before you emerged the nvidia kernel module the firs ttime and it didn't work you had updated the /usr/src/linux symlink to point to the newly emerged kernel source tree instead of the old one? That would explain how the magic version string in the module differed from the one in the running kernel.
Because it simply can't have been fixed by deleting the distfiles.

Edit: The reason for my assertion is that it's simply not possible that the distfile got corrupted and that went by undetected by both portage's and the nVidia installer's checksums. Or, to tone it down, it's a possibility so remote that it's about in the same class as a nice juicy steak materializing out of nowhere on a plate .
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