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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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> I don't remember running into this error previously. |
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> I suspect a problem with Openrc. Does anyone have comments or suggestions ? |
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a) linux does not point to the src dir of the sources of the kernel you are |
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running. Modules gets installed into the wrong directory |
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b) you did not rmmod'ed the old module |
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c) you did not restart. |
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I guess a) is the answer. |
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#163933 |