nvidia and kernel

[Tom H]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 07, 2010 06:09 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 07, 2010 01:07 AM, R Kimber wrote:
>>>
>>> Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 195.36.24,
>>> but this NVIDIA driver component has version 260.19.06.  Please make
>>> sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
>>> have the same version.
>>>
>>> I'm surprised that Ubuntu doesn't synchronise these.  Synaptic doesn't show
>>> a 195.36.24 package.
>>
>> Guess what 'dmesg |grep NVIDIA' tells me...
>> [   29.560710] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  195.36.24
>>    Thu Apr 22 19:10:14 PDT 2010
>>
>> Dunno. Maybe you tried something outside Ubuntu supplied stuff?
>>
>> /me proceeds to poke around after trolling
>>
>
> dpkg -l nvidia-glx-185
>
> ii  nvidia-glx-185                     195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04
>   Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185
>
> Well, well, well.
>
> You seem to have a rather fancy driver version.

260.19.06-0ubuntu1's in the maverick and natty repos.