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110605 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Sunday 05 June 2011 08:01:27 Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I installed the latest stable Nvidia driver 270.41.06 |
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>> & X refuses to start with the message |
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>> API mismatch: the client has the version 270.41.06, |
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>> but this kernel module has the version 260.19.36. |
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>> Please make sure that this kernel module |
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>> and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version. |
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>> The emerge output told me to 'modprobe -r nvidia' before restarting X, |
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>> but that doesn't seem to have any effect. |
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>> When I remerged 260.19.36 + 'modprobe -r nvidia', all is well again. |
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> 'linux' does not point to the src dir of the sources of the kernel |
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> you are running. Modules gets installed into the wrong directory |
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I'm not sure how red my face sb (smile): that was the answer, |
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but the cause of the awkward situation was a kernel bug which I reported |
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& which has still not been responded to by any of the kernel buggers. |
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To test the bug, I installed the vanilla sources |
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& had not restored the symlink to my normal Gentoo sources dir. |
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If only the Universe would unfold in nice straight lines ... |
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Thanks for the (indirect) help. |
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