From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GcfU6-0000w3-0T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:55:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9P9r4ZZ027017; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:53:04 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9P9oAWq026754 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:50:10 GMT Received: from [65.136.100.106] (0-1pool100-106.nas1.greenwood1.ms.us.da.qwest.net [65.136.100.106]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9P9olRg029359 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:50:48 -0500 Message-ID: <453F334D.3000600@exceedtech.net> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:50:05 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061016 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA question References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4676b3a1-2537-4ee6-8ec7-20c36fbb73ca X-Archives-Hash: 6930e5acfe4f46e031da5f1c42871969 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 :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list