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 1QTCTW-00067l-Ng for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:30:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5698C1C1A3 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B211C1C4 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so2613257fxm.40 for ; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:23:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=s/zNfrEBG+6ita0MJTXv37m+20LWHpVdWyd1JkVFF7c=; b=vNdiJ5IR58RBLcoKptdKzM1A5ar7O/v3rNb8YwxB+juu+VMt2WiqBJ1p1Ei3m3qsuZ 6mJVy4Ci82OZ7X1Aoeqnjc8J0wqMFJ++TjHCh4v6vI9/wSYOetkHYG1ioGwRVA6Q7zE3 LzMt1vTtOhetzbxx9ojSnSNx/y6Qjdsz03dXA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=GoAa794DzWfrrTtOejiNOddnBczfg5wIKKQMnG1M/JFQ1QUPK6IlMieWEcTuK5fcDl 8tXZNyWmpEklyPslubOkT4JzHypqoPRcJScfzlvmESOZC/g2B6S1DPTYbTJSPHImIpqj eOMbt0hSMT3HVt2dTzOTF74AkDpWZIDwxjrtw= Received: by 10.223.99.85 with SMTP id t21mr3205075fan.102.1307276581595; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC75267.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.82.103]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q21sm1017201fan.16.2011.06.05.05.22.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: Gentoo User Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with Nvidia-drivers-270.41.06 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:22:55 +0200 Message-ID: <2055347.C6LiAlaViq@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 rc1 (Linux/2.6.39.1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110605120127.GA3087@ca.inter.net> References: <20110605120127.GA3087@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d85bdbb4786da30b49c302805bb89c57 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. -- #163933