110605 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2011 08:01:27 Philip Webb wrote: >> I installed the latest stable Nvidia driver 270.41.06 >> & X refuses to start with the message >> API mismatch: the client has the version 270.41.06, >> but this kernel module has the version 260.19.36. >> Please make sure that this kernel module >> and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version. >> The emerge output told me to 'modprobe -r nvidia' before restarting X, >> but that doesn't seem to have any effect. >> When I remerged 260.19.36 + 'modprobe -r nvidia', all is well again. > 'linux' does not point to the src dir of the sources of the kernel > you are running. Modules gets installed into the wrong directory
I'm not sure how red my face sb (smile): that was the answer, but the cause of the awkward situation was a kernel bug which I reported & which has still not been responded to by any of the kernel buggers. To test the bug, I installed the vanilla sources & had not restored the symlink to my normal Gentoo sources dir. If only the Universe would unfold in nice straight lines ... Thanks for the (indirect) help. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca