Continuing problem with NVIDIA Driver

[Chris Rees]

On 6 June 2010 16:12, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64
>
> After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor
> was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in
> the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am
> also unable to load it manually.
>
> kldload nvidia
>
> KLD nvidia.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
> kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error
>
> kldstat
>
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1   12 0xffffffff80100000 ddd800   kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff81022000 399f     linprocfs.ko
>  3    1 0xffffffff81026000 1c4e8    linux.ko
>
> "kldstat -v" doesn't reveal anything interesting either.
>
> I have removed and reinstalled the NVIDIA driver
> (nvidia-driver-195.36.15) twice without any success.
>
> This only started after updating 'gettext'. Everything else appears to
> be working correctly.
>
> --

Have you *recompiled* nvidia-driver, or just reinstalled the package?
Is it linking against the *current* kernel in /boot/kernel?

Reboot, and portupgrade -f nvidia-driver

Chris