[elrepo-devel] kmod-nvidia.el6 question

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Steve Cleveland <stevec at engr.orst.edu> wrote:
> When I initially tested the nvidia-x11-drv and kmod-nvidia package with
> rhel6, it was working great.  But now I've run into a bit of a strange
> issue.
>
> My system build environment is based on the latest version of every
> package (using mrepo to download RHN updates and adding a repo option to
> ks.cfg to look at that repository during install).
>
> So for kernel, it is installing the latest available kernel only
> (currently 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64).
>
> With that package in place, if I install nvidia-x11-drv and kmod-nvidia,
> I'm not able to load the nvidia module:
>
> # modprobe nvidia
> FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
> (/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko):
> No such device
>
> But the file does exist:
>
> # ll /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 56 Feb  9 11:09
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko ->
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
>
> # ll /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 14845520 Jan 21 11:35
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko

At this point, if you run the depmod command against the installed
(latest) kernel, would it then work? Or reboot the system?

Akemi