On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, > walt did opine thusly: > > 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.
I didn't think I'd ever run the nVidia installation program, and on checking I see one nvidia.ko for each kernel version I have installed, so that isn't the problem. > module-rebuild takes care of all that nicely. And it wants to rebuild the module again, even though I only remerged it yesterday. Something is messing about with the nVidia module. Thanks for the ideas, gents. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
