Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, walt did opine thusly:
> On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen > > I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of > > nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This > > is in spite of not having been able to unload the old nvidia module > > because it was "in use". > > I've noticed that running the NVIDIA installation program manually puts > the resulting nvidia.ko in a different directory than when using emerge to > do the install. > > So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA install program manually, you probably > have two different nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules, and the wrong one gets > loaded automatically at boot time. Re-emerging nvidia-drivers will build > *and* load the correct kernel module each time you do it. > > May not be your problem but it's easy to check, at least. module-rebuild takes care of all that niceyl. You only have to remember to run that one command, not all the individual out- of-mainline modules you have installed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
