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/opt/nvidia-smi from nvidia-drivers pack outputs "failed to load nvidia kernel module"

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – Actually I have nouveau string in make.conf. "Nvidia-smi has failed because it couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver. Make sure that latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running." (HowTos)

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Hello everyone.

I run Ubuntu 10.04 and once in a while I stumble upon the following error message on startup:

Code: Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode

The following error was encountered.

nvidia madness 31 weeks 5 days ago

Hi all,

Just now I ran yum update. There was an error message to the effect that the latest nvidia kmod (kmod-nvidia-3.6.1-1.fc17) didn't match the latest kernel, which is still in the 3.5 range.

So I reran yum excluding kernel and kmod-nvidia.

Suddenly, after installing, boot was failed.

[ 161.815] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 161.822] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module.

Today I tried to activate the newer experimental drivers and both 304 and 310 failed to even install.

Hello,I was using nouveau with xf86-video-nouveau for some time on my Laptop with GeForce 6150 and AMD Dualcore CPU.Now I wanted to switch back to nvidia or nvidia-ck-kx to be preciese since I'm using the CK Kernel. I have used the CKKernel with nvidia-ck driver before.So I installed nvidia-ck-kx and nvidia-utils to replace libgl with it.

Hello again everyone, I recently tried installing the nvidia 304.43-1 driver, on the 3.5.3-1-ARCH kernel. Instead of just doing $ pacman -S nvidia (as i had issues with that before) I decided to try to compile it from source, following the instruction on the Wiki. I got the driver installed without error, and rebooted, in to a graphical environment.

Hi all,

after the kernel update i cannot install latest Nvidia driver.

NVIDIA driver issue? 29 weeks 2 days ago

Today I performed a yum upgrade to F18 from F17. It went pretty smoothly I must say. The only problem I have had is getting the proprietary NVIDIA driver working. If I load the system without an 'xorg.conf' file it loads the default drivers just fine. When specifying the nvidia driver, however, the system will not load the display manager. Shell access is still available though.

Hi of course you can use the Suse NVIDIA repository but this does not provide the most recent driver. So here the HOWTO thanks to "Marius"

Step 1: Via Yast install gcc make kernel source

Step2: Download the nvidia driver from the nvidia website and move it to / (top root directory) makes life easier for operations further down