So, in hunting through the xorg log file, the line: Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7167 Module Class XFree86 video driver
Would imply that something from 7167 got on my PC. I went straight from 6129 to 7167, so I don't know how this happened. Any ideas? This may explain the X error mentioned earlier. Robin On 4/22/05, Robin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A long message for a long story... > > I wanted to upgrade my nvidia drivers from 6129 to 7174 as I have read > about improvements in quality. > > I was on FC2 kernel 2.6.9-1.11 but there were no nvidia 7174 drivers > available for that kernel (via Synaptic). After some help in another > post, I decided to use apt-get to install the drivers and it found and > offered me a kernel that synaptic didn't - 2.6.10-1.770. I had earlier > seen that all the other modules/drivers were available for this kernel > (alsa, ivtv, lirc, video4linux, etc) so I went ahead and let apt > install the newer nvidia stuff and newer kernel. It suggested all the > dependencies, and they looked right to me. > > After, this was done, but before rebooting, I used Synaptic to install > the remaining 2.6.10-1.770 drivers I needed (alsa, ivtv, lirc, > video4linux). Then I rebooted. > > Then it went hellish. > > X no longer loads. I get the following error when it tries to start: > API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.7174, but this > library is version 1.0.7167. Please be sure your kernel's module and > all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version. > > The error shows up right after the line "reading config from > /etc/X11/xorg.conf" (or something like that - I am not at the > mythbox). Which component of the drivers does this mean it thinks is > 7167? > > Anyway, I assumed that apt had messed up a a dependency somewhere so > started in that direction... > > But annoyingly, the kernel upgrade also took out my ndiswrapper-based > wireless ethernet (wmp54g) and I don't seem to have the correct > version of ndiswrapper to make it work (I have 0.10 and 1.0 source, > but neither will work and both squawk about 4K stacks). So now I can't > get on the net. > > My mobo has onboard ethernet which I had disabled, so I tried to > revert to that running a long wire across the room, but I can't get it > to come up. There was no ifcfg-eth0 file under > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, so I created a basic one. Through some > combination of ifup, ifconfig and waving of dead chickens, the eth0 > device did come up once and I got on the net long enough to confirm > with apt that I had correctly installed all of the 7174 nvidia driver > stuff (driver, lib and module), so I don't know why it says something > is 7167. And I can't find any way to fix it. > > Furthermore, when I rebooted after making some other changes, eth0 now > won't come up again even though the ifcfg file now exists. ifup eth0 > generates no error, the device shows up as being detected at boot time > in /var/log/messages, modprobe is correctly aliasing it, yet ifconfig > eth0 says no device available. > > And I can't find a way to rollback to my prevous stable system. > > So, I am stuck with no Internet access and no X and no idea of how to fix it. > > Any suggestions? Has anyone seen this problem with nvidia 7174 and FC2 > 2.6.10-1.770? I can't find much helpful on the web. > > I seem to have painted myself into a corner and can't find a way out. > Yet nothing "untoward" happened during my apt/synaptic installs... > grrr > > Help/ideas would be truly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Robin > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
