nvidia api bug?????

[ulrich steffens]

Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2005, 10:46 +1100 schrieb ashley maher:
> G'day,
> 
> Distro: Ubuntu Breezy amd64
> 
> I made the mistake of upgrading my kernel and the nvidia package a
> couple of days ago using ubuntu packages.
> 
> >From the logs:
> 
> Script started on Tue 29 Nov 2005 10:23:49 EST
> ashley at gemini:~$ more /var/log/gdbm/\:0.log 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.7174, but 
> this X module is version 1.0.7667. Please be sure that your kernel 
> module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Script done on Tue 29 Nov 2005 10:24:37 EST
> 
> 
> Hints on fixing this one greatfully received.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ashley
> 
> 
hi ashley,
no bug in the drivers, it was you :)
somehow you managed to mix nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy.
remove the legacy-packages and you should be fine.
also while in synaptic look at the versionnumbers and descriptions for
the packages, that way you see what to keep and what to remove.

ulrich
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