[CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Michael D. Berger
I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed a new kernel. So I ran yum update. I boot to level 3, and when I ran startx, I got: -- ... (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module.

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Jason Brown
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Jason Brown On 01/17/2011 01:39 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed a new kernel. So I ran yum update. I boot to

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 01/17/2011 01:39 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed a new kernel. So I ran yum update. I boot to level 3, and when I ran startx, I got: snip FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote: The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia which are kABI-tracking kmod

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Michael D. Berger
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +, Ned Slider wrote: On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote: The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 07:07:03PM +, Ned Slider wrote: Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel update. They even work with the new 5.6

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/17/2011 3:08 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall, and then ran: yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11- drv 21 | tee el.log I got: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error getting repository data

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/01/11 20:08, Michael D. Berger wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +, Ned Slider wrote: On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote: The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Alternatively, you could use the