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* [gentoo-user] NVIDIA question
@ 2006-10-25  9:26 Jorge Almeida
  2006-10-25  9:44 ` Istvan Pongracz
  2006-10-25  9:50 ` Dale
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jorge Almeida @ 2006-10-25  9:26 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

I upgraded nvidia-drivers from 1.0.8774 to 1.0.8776. Couldn't restart
the X server. dmesg said the client and the kernel had unmatched
versions (kernel with 1.0.8774). I did "modprobe nvidia".
I ended up rebooting, and it works now.
So, what went wrong? (I mean, a reboot shouldn't be necessary...) What
must be done to make the kernel use the new module?

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* Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA question
  2006-10-25  9:26 [gentoo-user] NVIDIA question Jorge Almeida
@ 2006-10-25  9:44 ` Istvan Pongracz
  2006-10-25  9:50 ` Dale
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Istvan Pongracz @ 2006-10-25  9:44 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

You forgot to rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia
Previous nvidia kernel driver was in the memory, that is why dmesg reported the 
different versions.

István

Jorge Almeida írta:
> I upgraded nvidia-drivers from 1.0.8774 to 1.0.8776. Couldn't restart
> the X server. dmesg said the client and the kernel had unmatched
> versions (kernel with 1.0.8774). I did "modprobe nvidia".
> I ended up rebooting, and it works now.
> So, what went wrong? (I mean, a reboot shouldn't be necessary...) What
> must be done to make the kernel use the new module?
> 

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* Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA question
  2006-10-25  9:26 [gentoo-user] NVIDIA question Jorge Almeida
  2006-10-25  9:44 ` Istvan Pongracz
@ 2006-10-25  9:50 ` Dale
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dale @ 2006-10-25  9:50 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I upgraded nvidia-drivers from 1.0.8774 to 1.0.8776. Couldn't restart
> the X server. dmesg said the client and the kernel had unmatched
> versions (kernel with 1.0.8774). I did "modprobe nvidia".
> I ended up rebooting, and it works now.
> So, what went wrong? (I mean, a reboot shouldn't be necessary...) What
> must be done to make the kernel use the new module?
> 

You may have needed to remove the old module first.  I usually do this:

rmmod nvidia  # that removes the old one.
modules-update  # updates the modules, may not be needed though.
modprobe nvidia  # loads the new one back up

Then restart X.  That has always worked for me without needing to reboot.


Your mileage may vary.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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