New Graphics Card--X won't load kernel module

Dylan Semler dylan.semler at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 03:57:08 UTC 2006


On 9/8/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 20:09 -0400, Dylan Semler wrote:
> > I just upgraded my graphics card.  At the same time I decided to
> > re-install all of the nvidia drivers I have and switch from the atrpms
> > versions to the livna ones.  Upon trying to boot X, I get the
> > follwoing error (among others):
> >
> > FATAL: Module nvidia_1_0_8756 not found
> >
> > It seems like it's trying to load the old kernel module (the atrms
> > one).  I've got the livna driver and kernel module installed:
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> > nvidia-glx-1.0.8762-1.lvn4
> > kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-1.0.8762-1.lvn4
> >
> > I have specified to use the "nvidia" driver in xorg.conf
> >
> Did you do an rpm uninstall of the old atrpms driver then a new install
> of the livna driver?


I used yum, got rid of them all, rebooted, used yum no install the nvidia
ones, rebooted, and now I get this error.  I suppose I could try to go back
and use the atrpm ones again.

Cheers,
Dylan
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