[CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Mon Jan 17 19:02:55 UTC 2011
> 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 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 at 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
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