Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:09:38 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: danfe@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continuing problem with NVIDIA Driver Message-ID: <AANLkTinXszoKFGG8uTzT8KEwi3w-vAOqucyzHue_YnCE@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100606111246.4bca28a4@scorpio> References: <20100606111246.4bca28a4@scorpio>
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On 6 June 2010 16:12, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote: > FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64 > > After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor > was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in > the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am > also unable to load it manually. > > kldload nvidia > > KLD nvidia.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch > linker_load_file: Unsupported file type > kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error > > kldstat > > Id Refs Address =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Size =A0 =A0 Name > =A01 =A0 12 0xffffffff80100000 ddd800 =A0 kernel > =A02 =A0 =A01 0xffffffff81022000 399f =A0 =A0 linprocfs.ko > =A03 =A0 =A01 0xffffffff81026000 1c4e8 =A0 =A0linux.ko > > "kldstat -v" doesn't reveal anything interesting either. > > I have removed and reinstalled the NVIDIA driver > (nvidia-driver-195.36.15) twice without any success. > > This only started after updating 'gettext'. Everything else appears to > be working correctly. > > -- Have you *recompiled* nvidia-driver, or just reinstalled the package? Is it linking against the *current* kernel in /boot/kernel? Reboot, and portupgrade -f nvidia-driver Chris
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