Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:23:55 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: Continuing problem with NVIDIA Driver Message-ID: <201006061923.55470.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20100606111246.4bca28a4@scorpio> References: <20100606111246.4bca28a4@scorpio>
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On Sunday 06 June 2010 17:12:46 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 Size Name > 1 12 0xffffffff80100000 ddd800 kernel > 2 1 0xffffffff81022000 399f linprocfs.ko > 3 1 0xffffffff81026000 1c4e8 linux.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. Are your kernel sources in sync with the kernel you're running? Did you rebuild the driver? (i.e. make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean) You need to have the exact version of the sources you used to build the kernel. -- Pieter de Goeje
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