Re: [gentoo-user] problem with Nvidia-drivers-270.41.06

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

110605 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sunday 05 June 2011 08:01:27 Philip Webb wrote:
>> I installed the latest stable Nvidia driver 270.41.06
>> & X refuses to start with the message
>>   API mismatch: the client has the version 270.41.06,
>>   but this kernel module has the version 260.19.36.
>>   Please make sure that this kernel module
>>   and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.
>> The emerge output told me to 'modprobe -r nvidia' before restarting X,
>> but that doesn't seem to have any effect.
>> When I remerged 260.19.36 + 'modprobe -r nvidia', all is well again.
> 'linux' does not point to the src dir of the sources of the kernel
> you are running. Modules gets installed into the wrong directory

I'm not sure how red my face sb (smile): that was the answer,
but the cause of the awkward situation was a kernel bug which I reported
& which has still not been responded to by any of the kernel buggers.
To test the bug, I installed the vanilla sources
& had not restored the symlink to my normal Gentoo sources dir.

If only the Universe would unfold in nice straight lines ... 

Thanks for the (indirect) help.

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