On 12/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Curtis Porter</b> <<a href="mailto:cdp@curtisporter.com">cdp@curtisporter.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:40 -0500, vamythguy wrote:<br>> I had 9629 working. Ran:<br>><br>> smart install nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-$KVER<br>> smart install nvidia-graphics9631-libs nvidia-graphics9631<br>>
<br>> to get the latest packages from ATRPMS.<br>><br>> However, trying to start X gives me:<br><snip><br>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in<br>> your X<br>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in
<br>> your X<br>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX<br>> module. If<br>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try<br>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
<br>> Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version<br>> 1.0-9629, but<br>> this X module has the version 1.0-9631. Please make sure that the<br>> kernel<br>> module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.
<br><br>I had this problem last night. I first removed all traces of the 9629<br>driver via rpm -e nvidia-graphics9629-kmdl-$KVER<br>nvidia-graphics9629-libs, etc. At that point I got this same error<br>message again, only it reported an API mismatch between kernel module
<br>version 1.0-8776 and X module 1.0-9631. So I removed 8776 in the same<br>fashion. Unsurprisingly, it then reported to me that I had no NVIDIA<br>kernel module at all. So I removed the rest of my nvidia-graphics<br>
packages and did a "smart install nvidia-graphics9631", which fixed the<br>problem (after a reboot, which might not have been necessary).<br><br>My first thought was that when I last ran "smart upgrade" I received a
<br>new kernel, and the 9631 nvidia driver was installed for the kernel I<br>was running at the time but not for my new kernel. Checking rpm -qi on<br>the currently running kernel shows that it was installed on November 15,
<br>so that isn't it. Hopefully this gives some additional information for<br>someone who knows more about what's going on than I do...<br><br>Curtis<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br><br><br>Ok, I'm not sure what did it, but I removed all the nvidia packages I could find using rpm -e. Then I did a smart update, and a smart upgrade and got a new kernel. Then I used the commands from Jarod's guide to get the the nvidia drivers, rebooted, and *boom* - it's working.
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