Hi,

Did you upgrade your kernel in the recent emerge? Do a 'ls -la /usr/src' to 
check that the symb-link is pointing to the current kernel. Otherwise a 
recompile of nvidia-kernel will produce a module for the wrong kernel 
version.

Best regards,
Andreas Karlsson
Sweden

On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:51, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> Can someone give me some guidance with regard to setting up xorg-x11-7.0-r1
> to work with my Gainward GeForce 4 video card?  Everything was working just
> fine with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 but after an emerge, X refuses to run!  I get
> the following complaint in my Xorg.0.log file:
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
>
> I've tried installing (unstable) nvidia-drivers and nvidia-legacy-drivers,
> but the kernel complains about an invlaid kernel module.  I get the same
> error if I use the (stable) nvidia-kernel module.  My current kernel
> version is 2.6.15-gentoo-r1.  I can't go backwards.  Because xorg-x11 has
> been so thoroughly reorganized and modularized I have something like 134
> blockers (individual packages!) which would have to be individually removed
> before I could back-version to my previous xorg-x11.


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