Xorg NVIDIA drivers AWOL - Don't Know Why

[Thilo Six]

Lord Sauron wrote the following on 16.09.2006 02:01:
> Big problem.
> 
> My nVidia drivers have gone totally AWOL.  It says they can't load them.  
> I tracked the source of the problem via dmesg to this:
> 
> [ 40.202973] processor: disagrees about version of symbol boot_cpu_data
> [ 40.203026] processor: Unknown symbol boot_cpu_data
> 
> and later on:
> 
> [   54.940734] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> [   54.941546] nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol boot_cpu_data
> [   54.941593] nvidia: Unknown symbol boot_cpu_data
> [   54.964599] nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol boot_cpu_data
> [   54.964652] nvidia: Unknown symbol boot_cpu_data
> 
> Needless to say I don't know what to do.  I tried reinstalling the 
> nvidia kernel, however, that didn't work.  Right now I'm using the "nv" 
> driver, but I'm missing my opengl support.  Any suggestions about where 
> to begin fixing this would be really good.

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude upgrade

should fix it

bye Thilo
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