Problems with nvidia driver from Livna 8762

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Sat May 27 08:29:38 UTC 2006


Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:22 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
>> > Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 
>> 1.0-8756, but
>> > this X module has the version 1.0-8762.  Please make sure that the 
>> kernel
>> > module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.
>> >
>> > Any ideas about why I would get this error?  I have the 8762 rpm
>> > packages installed, I even tried recompiling the src.rpms from Livna.
>> > Everything seems to be 8762, so I don't know why something thinks it
>> > is 8756.
>>
>> Sounds like something broke during the upgrade.
>
> Well, it didn't upgrade, I had to uninstall and reinstall the
> kmod-nvidia and dependent packages.  I have removed and resintalled
> them several times.  Even going to the src.rpms, compiling, and
> installing those.  So I don't think it is something left over from the
> old packages.  It seems to be an issue with this package.  It could be
> an issue at nVidia's end, though I didn't notice anything similar on
> the nVidia Linux forum.  Whatever the problem, it would at least be
> nice to get back the old driver till this is sorted out, since I know
> that works...
>
> Jonathan
>
So you installed the proper versions of both kmod-nvidia and 
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia ? These are the two RPMs that compose the nvidia driver.
-Dan




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