Re: Continuing problem with NVIDIA Driver



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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