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Bug 187149 - nvidia-drivers ebuild should ewarn that after an upgrade, you must unload the kernel module by hand.
Summary: nvidia-drivers ebuild should ewarn that after an upgrade, you must unload the...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
Assignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers
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Reported: 2007-07-30 17:26 UTC by Ferris McCormick (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-02-15 16:13 UTC (History)
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Description Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-30 17:26:31 UTC 
I discovered the hard way that after the upgrade to nvidia-drivers-100.14.09, in order for X to work, I had to
modprobe -r nvidia
by hand.  Now, since the emerge process did not mention this, I naively expected the driver to take care of it (well, to be honest, I had forgotten about the kernel module).

It would be helpful if among all the messages at the end of the install there was one to the effect:
"Don't forget to unload any old, incompatible nvidia kernel modules before you use this version"

to remind people like me who do not keep track of things very well.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-23 20:10:14 UTC 
*** Bug 207209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-15 16:13:35 UTC 
added a note.