CentOS - Jan 2011 - nvidia failure with new kernel

I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed
a new kernel.  So I ran "yum update".  I boot to level 3, and when
I ran startx, I got:

--

...
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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If I boot with the old kernel, I can successfully run startx.

Thanks for your help.
Mike.

The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it
you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.

Jason Brown

On 01/17/2011 01:39 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote:
> I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed
> a new kernel.  So I ran "yum update".  I boot to level 3, and
when
> I ran startx, I got:
> 
> --
> 
> ...
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
> (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
> (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> --
> 
> If I boot with the old kernel, I can successfully run startx.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Mike.
> 
> 
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