Nvidia driver version mis-match keeps X from running

[Thomas Kaiser]

Alex Janssen wrote:
> Thomas Kaiser said the following on 09/26/2006 02:30 AM:
>> Hello Alex
>>
>> Looks like you have a conflict between 1.0-8774 and 1.0-8762? Do you 
>> have the Ubuntu package and nvidia's package installed? Try to remove 
>> the nvidia stuff.
>>
>> Sorry, not more help. Maybe I can update my box this evening and see 
>> whats happen.
>>
>> Regards, Thomas
>>   
> No NVIDIA package installed here. Only the Ubuntu distribution thereof.
> I don't understand what happened.  My installation was working fine.  
> Had been for 15 months.  I did a normal update of the system and it 
> quits working.  Maybe Nvidia did something to their code that introduced 
> a problem.  Maybe Ubuntu did something.
> 
> Still researching.

Hello Alex

I did update my system and I don't have problems. X runs just fine.
thomas at AMD64:~$ uname -a
Linux AMD64 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:50:50 
UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
thomas at AMD64:~$ dpkg -l |grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-glx 
1.0.8762+2.6.15.11-5                   NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 
driver
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                             20051028+1 
                     NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
thomas at AMD64:~$

Sorry, Thomas





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