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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:31:04 -0800
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On 01/15/2011 06:34 PM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Hi.  I am trying to use my unstable gentoo on kernel 2.6.36-gentoo-r6
> and when I emerge nvidia-drivers, I get invalid argument when I try to
> modprobe the module.

Forgive me if I'm repeating something already posted in this very long thread.
I just had the same problem for no obvious reason. I finally recompiled the
kernel and the problem disappeared (for no obvious reason).

Or, it might have been the chicken I sacrificed in front of the computer.