Nvidia driver wrong version

starnix · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 530

Last night I was trying to get my nvidia driver working on kernel 2.6.7 r11. I even went so far as to unmerge both nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. Then I installed the latest version 1.0.6106 r3 of both. Then when I try changing to have X use that driver I get an error somthing like the nvidia driver is the wrong version for the kernel module I have installed.

It says the driver is the 1.0.4xxx version. I thought nvidia-kernel WAS the driver. What is going on here. I didnt have any problems with nvidia's drivers until I switched to 2.6.7 of gentoo-dev-sources. Then I got the error that the module was an improper format or something like that. So I upgraded to the latest which made that error go away when I loaded the module but now the driver wont load. Anyone else having these issues? Anyone solve them? HELP!!!!

the brave · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 131

With Mandrake, in order to make nvida driver to be properly installed it was necessary to be sure that the kernel and kernel-source version match each other.
Sorry to ask this stupid question, but have you changed the driver to ΅nvidia" in your XF86Config-4 or xorg.conf file?
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starnix · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 530

Yes..... Wait, I think I just figured out whats going on. I can't believe I didnt check this. The nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx versions were not the same. I just installed the same versions. I will check if it works when I get home and let you know. Thanks again.

Braetene · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 89

not sure what sort of use flags you are using but you need the ~x86 versions of nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx and opengl-update, as long as you have those 3 specified you should be able to

MrApples · Guru Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 511

you would need the same versions of both, but your problem might have been that you didnt do "opengl-update nvidia"
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Braetene · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 89

emerge nvidia-glx automaitcally runs the opengl-update nvidia

perhaps somehow it didnt get the correct version of opengl-update, since it is fairly recent
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starnix · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 530

Amazing what having the save version of kernel and glx will do. It works fine now. {embarrassed}

Sorry guys. Thanks for the help.