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oregonshoegazer
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:32 pm Post subject: nvidia update kernel module to version 1.0.4349 |
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i have recently lost the ability to load my nvidia modules. i haven't recompiled the kernel. all i did was an emerge world and an etc-update, and now, i get the following complaint when i try to start up a display manager: | Code: |
Error: This version of the NVIDIA kernel module is too old to support version checking. Please update your kernel module to version 1.0.4349
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialze the NVIDIA kernel module!
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what mystifies me is that the latest ebuild is for 1.0.4349-r2 and that is the one i'm using. shouldn't this be sufficient? | Code: |
* media-video/nvidia-glx
Latest version available: 1.0.4349
Latest version installed: 1.0.4349
Size of downloaded files: 4,097 kB
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: XFree86 GLX libraries for the NVIDIA's X driver
* media-video/nvidia-kernel
Latest version available: 1.0.4349-r2
Latest version installed: 1.0.4349-r2
Size of downloaded files: 648 kB
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA's X driver
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durandal
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Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject: Re: nvidia update kernel module to version 1.0.4349 |
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| oregonshoegazer wrote: | i have recently lost the ability to load my nvidia modules. i haven't recompiled the kernel. all i did was an emerge world and an etc-update, and now, i get the following complaint when i try to start up a display manager: | Code: |
Error: This version of the NVIDIA kernel module is too old to support version checking. Please update your kernel module to version 1.0.4349
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialze the NVIDIA kernel module!
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Hi,
The module name has changed from NVidia to nvidia. You probably have the old name listed in /etc/modules.autoload. Change it and all should be well. No need to reboot, by the way: just rmmod the currently loaded NVidia and then insmod nvidia.o. Should have you up and running.
Cheers,
Mike Sipior |
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oregonshoegazer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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yup! that did it! thanks mike! 
just out of curiousity, how does one know about module name changes like this? has it been posted somewhere where i couldn't see it? should i have read an error log that said something to the effect of "All previous usages of 'NVidia' will now be known as 'nvidia'"? |
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echeslack
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:53 am Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure that when I upgraded it printed a message at the end of the install. Maybe you missed it because you upgraded a bunch of packages at once? Usually major changes like that get put in a message in the ebuild. As for missing it because of batch upgrades, I think that problem has been brought up before, but I am not sure about its status at this point.
-ewen |
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