From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxpkg-0003Uy-Bp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:03:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D500E0D39 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A73EE0921 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qafk1 with SMTP id k1so1764338qaf.19 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:21:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=s3TzsAe1MXmEL/IeHL6bCyM0UbTF3RowO+H8LkCQD4A=; b=JXj75R/s3bqc1RSYK9ddWvK3Pih5i6vruvx/xrV/kZNWDKwanOMb8CLDuWxXSEOlWP UIeYiTCv/vU9Js1NUC8sCxeQzwep3RI6RjnS4rNV5D2g508/JXwE3KSo5xBSLWB0QSpF 251mGx5sbNxARD2Z86dPaKBw9cbfcMoTwTE64= Received: by 10.229.135.10 with SMTP id l10mr287820qct.14.1329351650983; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from banana.localnet (user-0c8h2n1.cable.mindspring.com. [24.136.138.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j17sm14043571qaj.9.2012.02.15.16.20.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:20:06 -0800 (PST) From: Aaron Bauman To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia Update Problem Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:18:55 -0500 Message-ID: <11569453.vjJ19g2r9v@banana> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.2.6; KDE/4.8.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120215190658.d18d2b08.frank.peters@comcast.net> References: <20120215190658.d18d2b08.frank.peters@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 79ab92d3-9387-40be-990c-09e4033ee2e2 X-Archives-Hash: 44ffe62f9d922992565da3e9e56a9624 On Wednesday 15 February 2012 19:06:58 Frank Peters wrote: > After updating nvidia-drivers from 290.10 to 295.20-r1, I cannot start X > and the log files contain this message: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see > the [ 3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additional > error messages and [ 3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0): consult the NVIDIA > README for details. [ 3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > [ 3482.609] > > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 295.20, but > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 290.10. Please > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver > NVRM: components have the same version. > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 295.20, but > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 290.10. Please > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver > NVRM: components have the same version. > > What could be the problem? I've seen no other reports of > this issue. > > Frank Peters You need to rebuild your kernel.