Continuing problem with NVIDIA Driver

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Sunday 06 June 2010 17:12:46 Jerry wrote:
> FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64
>
> After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor
> was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in
> the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am
> also unable to load it manually.
>
> kldload nvidia
>
> KLD nvidia.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
> kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error
>
> kldstat
>
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1   12 0xffffffff80100000 ddd800   kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff81022000 399f     linprocfs.ko
>  3    1 0xffffffff81026000 1c4e8    linux.ko
>
> "kldstat -v" doesn't reveal anything interesting either.
>
> I have removed and reinstalled the NVIDIA driver
> (nvidia-driver-195.36.15) twice without any success.
>
> This only started after updating 'gettext'. Everything else appears to
> be working correctly.

Are your kernel sources in sync with the kernel you're running? Did you 
rebuild the driver? (i.e. make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean)
You need to have the exact version of the sources you used to build the 
kernel.

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Pieter de Goeje