From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 16:10:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE05B106566C for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:10:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB648FC24 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so1228544bwz.13 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:10:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:reply-to :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OijmivnTpm8zsZcg4k24EnwuMch2sN2Z30r6OIS/pPs=; b=sR54Fh9bHaKe1WhcvCxXxsknlPepfHCxYKw9K1wy3f4C/5kumN5Zj2LXmm7O79DFy7 f/P55WvkKUHn/dETGh9BRhOAPYWDc7qyAwYyLUMYchSkjLgV9BglDuQh7fjAHisxCl1b qe/8Nj4N8HO4TvJD9WiNUyNl9k1lCtaHGJk5Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ew2LFeFbge0TAqBWYzLJKRBSiJI4UOqjzpG+0XevU3dtIIBBkyXe1Z96+fb7QuCe9Y 7LX5gK86MkUqwj55wb/owPNJfN0Z0K+ewh2hksonkk77jDSWEEM/xQRnUr77hewRk/l4 fYa4RdBs2tFwHEoGHChbT0iJdI3DWKRNqILs8= Received: by 10.204.46.207 with SMTP id k15mr5918110bkf.106.1275840608096; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:10:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.54.211 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 09:09:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100606111246.4bca28a4@scorpio> References: <20100606111246.4bca28a4@scorpio> From: Chris Rees Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:09:38 +0100 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: danfe@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continuing problem with NVIDIA Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:10:10 -0000 On 6 June 2010 16:12, Jerry 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