nvidia and kernel

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, November 08, 2010 12:42 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 07, 2010 06:09 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> On Sunday, November 07, 2010 01:07 AM, R Kimber wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> 260.19.06-0ubuntu1's in the maverick and natty repos.
>

Well then, the Mavericks and the Natties can have it! :-D