On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 18:51 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I found the problem. I had downloaded the source files for BSD a few > days ago; however, I never rebuild the kernel or world. When the nvidia > driver got rebuild it was evidently using those new files. I got the > answer while Googling. When trying to manually load the driver, I > received this error message: > > kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error > > Evidently, this is a known phenomena with the nvidia-driver.
This is a known phenomena with everything when having your OS sources and your live OS out of sync. > So, after rebuild World/Kernel and installing same and then rebuilding > the nvidia-driver, all is well again. > > Now, in my not so humble opinion, there should be some sort of warning > in the driver dialog, or at least in the port description that warns of > this behavior. It could have save3d me several hours of needless > searching. Hours that I will never get back. :) > Nvdia-driver is a driver, a kernel module so to say. You built the driver against kernel sources that are different from your live kernel. You got a driver that will work with kernel corresponding to those sources. What kind of "warning" would you be expecting there and what purpose would it serve? m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account) _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
