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General => Users => Topic started by: colinjones on July 24, 2009, 04:50:32 am
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Hi!
Wondered if anybody could give me some pointers on this one, as I really do not want to have to rebuild my system. A couple of days aog I installed dkms and a couple of test v4l debs - all of which should be compatible with both 0710 (which I am using) and 0810. Unfortunately, it killed my machine. After a reboot, X will not start.
I tried removing all three components and rebooted... same issue. So I thought something must have screwed up the nVidia driver (its failing at the point it tried to load the nVidia module). So I have tried reinstalling the drivers (180.06 and the latest 185 versions), but it always fails as it tried to make the kernel interfaces between kernel and module.
Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko':
-1 File exists
<snip>
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 169.12, but
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.06. Please
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 1200.096000] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 1200.400000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 64
[ 1200.400000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
[ 1200.404000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 180.06 Sat Nov
8 12:13:58 PST 2008
In the install log and similar messages in dmesg. I understand that the nVidia drivers use dkms in some way to build the kernel interfaces, so I can only assume that installing that in someway is now preventing the driver install from doing this properly.
Has any body any idea how I can fix this up??
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cant you just apt-get a different driver?
if need be look into
dkms -remove driver name
hth
Tim
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Hi!
Wondered if anybody could give me some pointers on this one, as I really do not want to have to rebuild my system. A couple of days aog I installed dkms and a couple of test v4l debs - all of which should be compatible with both 0710 (which I am using) and 0810. Unfortunately, it killed my machine. After a reboot, X will not start.
I tried removing all three components and rebooted... same issue. So I thought something must have screwed up the nVidia driver (its failing at the point it tried to load the nVidia module). So I have tried reinstalling the drivers (180.06 and the latest 185 versions), but it always fails as it tried to make the kernel interfaces between kernel and module.
Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko':
-1 File exists
<snip>
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 169.12, but
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 180.06. Please
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 1193.364000] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 1200.096000] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 1200.400000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 64
[ 1200.400000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
[ 1200.404000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 180.06 Sat Nov
8 12:13:58 PST 2008
In the install log and similar messages in dmesg. I understand that the nVidia drivers use dkms in some way to build the kernel interfaces, so I can only assume that installing that in someway is now preventing the driver install from doing this properly.
Has any body any idea how I can fix this up??
Hi Colin,
If you can PM me details so that we can ssh into your Core we will take a look at the problem on Sat/Sun for you.
All the best
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew, but I ended up completely screwing it up by repeatedly trying to install/uninstall dkms, the drivers, etc and then it said it couldn't even start the driver install because there were no kernel sources, and I couldn't install them using sudo apt-get install kernel-sources.... I gave up, and blew it all away and I'm reinstalling. I don't suppose anybody has ever successfully backed up an MD (from /usr/pluto/diskless...) and restored it have they?
I want to avoid going through the pain of getting the 8168 driver working again for this MD, so I tarred the entire folder. I figured I would turn on the MD, let it get discovered and build the image/DB details. Then blow away that directory and restore from the tar... do you think that would work?