Thanks Andre. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > $ uname -a > Linux think 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 5 13:56:27 UTC 2011 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > $ dpkg --print-architecture > i386 > $ dpkg -l nvidia-glx | grep ^ii > ii nvidia-glx 290.06-1 > NVIDIA metapackage > Interesting. 290.06? The one I got from experimental a couple of weeks ago was 290.03. I think I need to try it. > However, I did get your error because I forgot to unload the old nvidia > module. You can diagnose this if you look in /var/log/syslog, I got: > > Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995242] NVRM: API mismatch: the > client has the version 290.06, but > Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995244] NVRM: this kernel module has > the version 275.36. Please > Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995245] NVRM: make sure that this > kernel module and all NVIDIA driver > Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995247] NVRM: components have the > same version. > > but X started without any issues after I ran 'modprobe -r nvidia'. > I did a reboot. I just had to do an upgrade, but I'll see if I the newer drivers will work. Thanks Andre. --b > > Hope this helps, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic >
