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axion

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Registered: 2004-08-22

Posts: 11

nvidia kernel module

The current stable Arch nvidia kernel module is 100.14.11, but I was having problems with that, so I upgraded to 100.14.19 from [testing]. Well, it didn't solve my problem, so I went to investigate...I loaded up nvidia-settings, only to find out that 100.14.19 is being reported as 100.14.11. Do I really have .19, or was there a packaging problem? I'm assuming the latter due to the fact that it's in [testing], but I wasn't sure so I didn't post a bug report. Any ideas?

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: nvidia kernel module

Did you install the package nvidia and nvidia-utils?

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axion

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Registered: 2004-08-22

Posts: 11

Re: nvidia kernel module

Yes.

[axion@axion|~>pacman -Q|grep nvidia
nvidia 100.14.19-1
nvidia-utils 100.14.19-2

I have also stopped X and unloaded the old module. Heh, I even did a few reboots during my troubleshooting.

Hmm, it seems that the driver is 100.14.19, though somehow nvidia-settings detects .11...

[axion@axion|~>cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep 100.14
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  100.14.19  Wed Sep 12 14:48:02 PDT 2007
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  100.14.19  Wed Sep 12 14:14:20 PDT 2007

Wow...don't know how I missed this....or how to even fix it:

dmesg:
NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 100.14.11, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19.  Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.

Last edited by axion (2007-10-05 11:36:26)

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: nvidia kernel module

Hello,

I have had a lot of problems with my Nvidia 7300 GS card.
I followed the comments from this post at nvidia's forum, and reverted back to nvidia module 100.14.09.

All my problems are solved now.

For my card nor 100.14.11 and 100.14.19 are stable enought

Try this pervious version and tell me if it works.

Cheers,
Chicha, who will by an ATI next time

axion

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Registered: 2004-08-22

Posts: 11

Re: nvidia kernel module

unfortunately I can't use .09 because of the dreaded console bug...not to mention it is no longer supported by nvidia.

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: nvidia kernel module

What Nvidia card do you have ?

axion

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Registered: 2004-08-22

Posts: 11

Re: nvidia kernel module

6100 series. GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 to be exact