nvidia and kernel

[Christopher Chan]

On Sunday, November 07, 2010 06:09 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Sunday, November 07, 2010 01:07 AM, R Kimber wrote:
>> I have a boinc error in a log that says:-
>>
>> Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 195.36.24,
>> but this NVIDIA driver component has version 260.19.06.  Please make
>> sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
>> have the same version.
>>
>> I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't synchronise these.  Synaptic doesn't show
>> a 195.36.24 package.
>
> Guess what 'dmesg |grep NVIDIA' tells me...
> [   29.560710] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  195.36.24
>    Thu Apr 22 19:10:14 PDT 2010
>
>>
>> I assume there's nothing I can do about this (apart from complain)?
>>
>> - Richard.
>
> Dunno. Maybe you tried something outside Ubuntu supplied stuff?
>
> /me proceeds to poke around after trolling
>

dpkg -l nvidia-glx-185

ii  nvidia-glx-185                     195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 
   Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185

Well, well, well.

You seem to have a rather fancy driver version.