Akemi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >>> If you do not have any other dkms-dependent packages, you should >>> remove all dkms-xxx. >> >> Mmmm... I was afraid to do that, not being sure what else it loads. >> However, if I rpm -qa | grep dkms, I only see dkms itself. > > In that case, you can safely remove dkms. > > yum remove dkms > The chkconfig stop ought to take care of its accidentally running. > After doing that, please show us the output of: > > ls -l `find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko` How 'bout find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko -ls? 30965907 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 18 09:48 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/weak-updates/nvidia.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/extra/nvidia.ko 31031730 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 18 09:48 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.6.1.el5/weak-updates/nvidia.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/extra/nvidia.ko 31064673 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 18 09:48 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.9.1.el5/weak-updates/nvidia.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/extra/nvidia.ko 30704811 12004 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12270160 Jan 22 10:36 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/extra/nvidia.ko 30736857 11192 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 11437204 Jan 15 09:50 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.ko 31096947 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 18 09:48 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/weak-updates/nvidia.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/extra/nvidia.ko 30770916 11180 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11424810 Mar 18 10:09 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko mark