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thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

[solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

Howdie,

I just updated my wifes PC. It had problems with wine and WoW month back which is why I installed a lts-kernel to fix that. Now I needed to update the machine again and removed the lts-kernel and the package nvidia-lts which was needed back then.

This just to explain already what I did prior to the error. What happens now is, that when I start anything with wine, I get this message on the console:

Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 256.53,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 256.35.  Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.

and neither reinstalling the (normal) nvidia-driver nor the kernel will solve that.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve that?

Last edited by thom_raindog (2010-10-16 20:47:15)

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

If it is x86_64 then check if there is the right version of lib32-nvidia-utils installed. It should be 256.53-2.

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

It's nvidia-utils-256.53-1 and no matter how much I sync pacman, it won't be anything else... should I change my mirrors?

And, the error claims that

this NVIDIA driver component has version 256.35

and that is just not right, is it?

Edit: I just used reflector to get me a new list of mirrors (which interestingly enough gave me a list full of org and au mirrors, strange for someone living in de, but hey...) but synching does nothing to update my nvidia-utils.

Last edited by thom_raindog (2010-10-15 07:02:19)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

Dogmeat is tallking about lib32-nvidia-utils.
Can you post a pacman -Qs nvidia?

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

Sure.

pacman -Qs nvidia                                                                                                                            
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 256.35-5 (lib32)
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.
local/libvdpau 0.4-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 256.53-1
    NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
local/nvidia-utils 256.53-1                                                                                                                           
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.    

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

Your lib32-nvidia-utils is out of date. Make sure you have multilib repo enabled and then do

pacman -Syu

.
By the way, you should read news - News: True multilib for Arch Linux x86_64

Last edited by Dogmeat (2010-10-15 22:00:52)

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

That does look like the solution, thank you.
Yes, I guess I need to read Arch-News now (as well)

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: [solved-duh!]Nvidia-driver after update

Alright, now it's up-to-date and nvidia works fine again. Thank you for that.
That does NOTHING to solve my problems with WoW after the big patch, but that is stuff for a different thread