NVIDIA 7167 module error

anjames · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: NVIDIA 7167 module error

After merging the latest NVIDIA drivers through an

emerge --deep --update world

I received the following error when typing startx:

Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 7.1.0, but
this X module is version 1.0.7167. Please be sure that your kernel
module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version.

Is anyone else seeing this, and does anyone know how to fix it?

smasher · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 95

Are your nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel versions the same?

anjames · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:12 am Post subject:

Indeed they are:

* media-video/nvidia-glx
Latest version available: 1.0.7167-r1
Latest version installed: 1.0.7167-r1
Size of downloaded files: 17,711 kB
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
License: NVIDIA

* media-video/nvidia-kernel
Latest version available: 1.0.7167-r1
Latest version installed: 1.0.7167-r1
Size of downloaded files: 17,711 kB
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA X11 driver
License: NVIDIA

This is what truly baffles me. Perhaps some error or another has occurred in the module build...

smasher · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 95

Have you removed your old module with modprobe -r or rebooted?

anjames · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:18 am Post subject:

Yes, I regularly shutdown my machine at the end of the day

anjames · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject:

weird, I remerged and it works now. Whatever.