From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with Nvidia-drivers-270.41.06
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:22:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2055347.C6LiAlaViq@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110605120127.GA3087@ca.inter.net>
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.
>
> I don't remember running into this error previously.
> I suspect a problem with Openrc. Does anyone have comments or suggestions ?
a) linux does not point to the src dir of the sources of the kernel you are
running. Modules gets installed into the wrong directory
b) you did not rmmod'ed the old module
c) you did not restart.
I guess a) is the answer.
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[not found] <20110605120127.GA3087@ca.inter.net>
2011-06-05 12:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2011-06-05 15:09 ` [gentoo-user] problem with Nvidia-drivers-270.41.06 Philip Webb
2011-06-05 16:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-06 2:42 ` Adam Carter
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