[Breezy] Problem getting nVidia Geforce 5200 card to work

[James Gray]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:34, Christian Convey wrote:
> I installed Breezy, and then installed nVidia's current proprietary
> driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run
>
> After adjusting my xorg.conf file accordingly, I can't start X.
**snipped**
> The most noteworthy-seeming error message appears just on the console
> from which I run startx:
>
> "Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.7667,
> but this X module is version 1.0.7676. Please be sure that your kernel
> module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same kernel version."
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?  For now I'm getting by
> on just the "nv" driver.

Did you unload the previous NVidia kernel module before starting the X 
server?  I've had problems with this in the past when I installed the 
"nvidia-glx" and associated packages from Ubuntu then tried installing 
NVidia's driver.

Make sure you *completely* remove any Ubuntu Nvidia packages BEFORE running 
NVidia's own installer:

sudo apt-get --purge remove <list of installed nvidia packages>

...should do the trick.

At the least you'd probably have the following packages - but check with 
"dpkg -l '*nvidia*'" without the "" and look for lines that begin with ii:
nvidia-glx
nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174

Then unload the kernel module:

sudo modprobe -r nvidia

NOW run the Nvidia installer and reload the nvidia module when you're done

sudo modprobe nvidia

HTH,

James
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