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queenmedley

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From: Busan / S.Korea Busan

Registered: 2005-06-15

Posts: 65

nvidia

I upgraded nvidia driver to 100.14.19-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.
I found soemthing strange.. My kernel is 2.6.21-arch.. but
nvidia driver made new kernel driver (2.6.23) in /lib/module/2.6.23-ARCH ..
And nvidia driver and some files...keymap etc.... is in 2.6.23-arch folder...
So when I start xorg, error messageis is '....not found nvidia driver...in ...2.6.21-arch.....'

So I copy or link nvidia driver in 2.6.23 to 2.6.21 .
But xorg doesn't work.. error message is (when excute dmege)
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nvidia: version magic '2.6.23-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '2.6.21-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload '
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what does it mean?? How can I do??

Last edited by queenmedley (2007-11-05 11:08:55)

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attila

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Registered: 2006-11-14

Posts: 293

Re: nvidia

My kernel is 2.6.21-arch.. but nvidia driver made new kernel driver (2.6.23) in /lib/module/2.6.23-ARCH ..

The active kernel26 is 2.6.23 and that is why the modules get installed to this directory. Could it be that you have a IgnorePkg line for it in /etc/pacman.conf?

So I copy or link nvidia driver in 2.6.23 to 2.6.21.

This will never work (man depmod).

kumico

Member

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 224

Website

Re: nvidia

yo need to modify the *kernelver* variable in teh pkgbuild

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: nvidia

Don't update the nvidia driver, update the whole system: pacman -Syu

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queenmedley

Member

From: Busan / S.Korea Busan

Registered: 2005-06-15

Posts: 65

Re: nvidia

I am not good at kernel....
So  I removed nvidia driver(arch-pkg) installed.
then I downloaded nvidia-driver from nvidia homapage and installed it.
Now xorg work ..fine...

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brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: nvidia

You shouldn't do that. The nvidia installer will replace files and pacman doesn't know about it. System updates will break your system again and again. Instead you should have simply updated your system to the latest state of the repositories.