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

Dylan Semler dylan.semler at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 04:47:07 UTC 2006


On 9/8/06, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>
It turned out that there was old atrms info in the modprobe.conf.  There
also happened to be a handy modprobe.conf.backup-nvidia-glx which had the
appropriate livna modprobe.conf adjustments.  I made the intuitive changes
to modprobe.conf based on the livna file and now everything works.


Cheers,
Dylan
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