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whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 182

Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

I updated to the new drivers and utils from the testing repo. This was the message I got when I tried to startx

Error API mismatch the NVIDIA kernel module has version 169.12, but the NVIDIA driver component has revision 173.14.05 Please make sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.

...How do I update what version my kernel module has?

Last edited by whaevr (2008-06-03 23:58:32)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

Try rebooting.

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

Did you do this before restarting X (as root):

# modprobe -r nvidia
# modprobe nvidia

If that doesn't work, what's the output of

pacman -Q | grep nvidia

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whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 182

Re: Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

Rebooting worked...:/
I feel a bit dumb that I didn't try that in the first place...

Thanks anyway!

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

For the record -- klixon's suggestion would have also worked, it's in fact the proper way to do it (I was just, frankly, too lazy to explain it the way he did, and reboot basically accomplished the same thing).

SleepyFloyd

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 91

Re: Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

Neither rebooting nor modprobe solved this problem for me.
The pacman -Q | grep nvidia output:

lib32-nvidia-utils 173.14.05-1
nvidia 173.14.09-4
nvidia-utils 173.14.09-1

Do I have to wait till the lib32-nvidia-utils get upgraded for my arch64 installation?

ahaslam

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Registered: 2007-05-11

Posts: 119

Re: Nvidia 173.14: API mismatch? [SOLVED]

Neither rebooting nor modprobe solved this problem for me.
The pacman -Q | grep nvidia output:

lib32-nvidia-utils 173.14.05-1
nvidia 173.14.09-4
nvidia-utils 173.14.09-1

Do I have to wait till the lib32-nvidia-utils get upgraded for my arch64 installation?

You can, or get the PKGBUILD from ABS & change the pkgver.