On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> 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 It's a mess. :-( You have missing symlinks (If you run the original command, you'd see red-blinking lines). nvidia.ko built by dkms is still there, etc. If I were you, I would completely remove dkms and all nvidia.ko and symlinks above. Then do a clean install of the kmod package ( http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx ). Akemi