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:
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FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
Jason Brown wrote:
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
suggestion: install the kABI-tracking kmod from elrepo. They survive kernel updates.
[nthierry@tryo ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia kmod-nvidia-260.19.29-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-260.19.29-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-260.19.29-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64