I have been getting pretty good with breaking my system lately. Today I got it in mind to stop downloading the Nvidia binary driver and installing it myself and switch to using the version available as a Debian package. I first uninstalled the downloaded version and rebooted to the normal desktop OK. I tried using lspci to see just what driver it was currently using but either it didn't say or I didn't understand the output. But the vesa driver was installed and it seemed unlikely it was using the driver I just uninstalled, so i went forward thinking I had the old drivers removed. I'm not sure if that was necessary, but cleaning out the old before installing the new seemed to be a good idea.
I wasn't sure exactly what to select (in Synaptic) for the new drivers, and unfortunately don't remember exactly everything that may have been selected as a dependency. But I know I at least the following were installed: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia' nvidia-kernel-dkms dkms And I'm pretty sure these were installed nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-support nvidia-kernel-commen nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-alternative nvidia-kernel-686-pae (it does match my kernel, and making the kernel module ends without error) There are also other packages related to glx, and probably more I don't remember. But, I can't get the xserver to start. I can log into virtual terminals OK. At the end of the boot sequence I get the following message: "NWRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 304.108, but this kernel module has the version 319.76. Please make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version." That sounds simple enough, but I have searched all packages I can think make be related in Aptitude and can not find anything that mentions version 304.108. Either they all say 319.76, or a version like '20131102+1 (that's the 'nvidia-kernel-common among others). I just noticed that 'glx-alternative-nvidia has a version of '0.4.1', but even if that's the problem I can't uninstall that without it taking most of the packages listed above. I checked my 'sources.list' and all the '...debian.org' lines are set to jessie. I'm not sure if any of the packages related to my problem could have come from other repositories, but I do have the following: www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing non-free main packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian/ jessie main ftp.mowgli.ch/pub/debian/ wheezy unofficial Also apt.last.fm, download.skype.com and dowload.webmin.com, but these seem pretty unlikely sources of wrong version Nvidia drivers to me (then again, if I knew what I was doing I woudn't be writing to you :-)). I love the idea of not having to re-installed the downloaded Nvidia drivers every time the kernel updates (plus it seems to keep breaking) so I would like to get this to work. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cancvmg0wsxfactszc3zbabbfaw6xenmw83case2fjifr6fz...@mail.gmail.com