Nvidia driver version mis-match keeps X from running

[Thomas Kaiser]

Alex Janssen wrote:
> Thomas Kaiser said the following on 09/27/2006 02:27 AM:
>> Hello Alex
>>
>> I did update my system and I don't have problems. X runs just fine.
>> thomas at AMD64:~$ uname -a
>> Linux AMD64 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:50:50 
>> UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> thomas at AMD64:~$ dpkg -l |grep nvidia
>> ii  nvidia-glx 
>> 1.0.8762+2.6.15.11-5                   NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 
>> driver
>> ii  nvidia-kernel-common                             20051028+1 
>>                      NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
>> thomas at AMD64:~$
>>
>> Sorry, Thomas
>>   
> Thomas,
> I now have what you have above, but I now get the message from 
> restarting gdm that it cannot find the nvidia module.  As far as I can 
> tell, it's there.  I see /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o.
> I'm not sure what I should be  looking for.  I installed nvidia-glx with 
> Synaptic.  I feel that I'm close but I'm no guru.
> 
> Alex
> 

Hello Alex

It's the same on my box:
thomas at AMD64:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1466936 2006-09-18 09:28 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
thomas at AMD64:~$

Regards, Thomas


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