nvidia restricted modules upgrade fails

[John Dangler]

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 14:21 +0000, R Kimber wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:43:23 +0000
> Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > R Kimber wrote the following on 2006-11-04 10:47:
> > > After today's upgrade of the nvidia restricted modules, X would not
> > > restart. The log complained about a mismatch of modules.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else get this?
Yes.  If you installed nvidia drivers and built the kernel module for
it, then you need to rebuild the kernel module, remove the old one, and
install the new one before it will work.
> > > 
> > > I'm using 2.6.15-27-amd64-k8 on dual core amd
> > > 
> > > - Richard
> > 
> > Just a question though:
> > Did you reboot?
> 
> I restarted X.  There was no suggestion from the upgrade-manager that I
> needed to reboot, as there is with kernel upgrades, e.g.
> 
> - Richard.
> -- 
> Richard Kimber
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
>