Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Me again!

Now I went back to the latest nvidia driver. Building went fine (I am using 
dkms), but it inhibits to load.

See the last strace output from "strace modprobe nvidia":


stat64("/sys/module", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/module/i2c_core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/sys/module/i2c_core/initstate", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0xb789e000
read(3, "live\n", 4096)                 = 5
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0xb789e000, 4096)                = 0
stat64("/sys/module", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/module/nvidia", 0xbfe98a8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/lib/modules/3.0.0-1-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12149068, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 12149068, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb6b84000
close(3)                                = 0
init_module(0xb6b84000, 12149068, "NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_Devi"...) = -1 
ENODEV (No such device)
write(2, "FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/"..., 100FATAL: Error inserting 
nvidia (/lib/modules/3.0.0-1-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko): No such device
) = 100
exit_group(1)                           = ?


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Any hints?

Hans