modprobe nvidia FATAL Error

jkruer01 · /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r7/

Hello,

I just loaded my new AMD64 box and everything was working great. KDE was up and running but without 3d acceleration. I followed the NVIDIA howto, but when I rebooted it would hang while trying to load gdm. I rebooted with the LiveCD and tried to recompile nvidia-glx. This time I used the ~amd64 keyword. When I do a

EvilMonkey · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

Make sure that you have the symlink pointing to your current kernel set properly, when you complie nvidia it referrs to that.

[code] ls -l /usr/src/ [code]

When you do that, you should see something like
[/code] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 2 11:02 linux -> linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 [code]
if you don't, then you need to make one, pointing to your current kernel
[/code] cd /usr/src/
ln -s "insert linux kernel here" linux
[code]

If you didn't have it, then recompile nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx after making it, that tends to solve most of the nvidia modprobing errors.[/code]

jkruer01 · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the suggestion. I checked the link and it was setup correctly. However, I went ahead and unmerged nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel, rebooted and then re-emerged them and it worked.

Thanks!