I am having problems upgrading my nvidia display drivers. I have followed the wiki, as well as guides over on the ubuntu community but each time i get api mismatch errors on start up. The same is true if i use 180.60 or 185.14 versions of the nvidia drivers.
I have disabled the "nv nvidia_new" module in the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common file with no change.
Please can someone help, this shouldnt be difficult its only a driver!
I am reinstalling Kubuntu again now (second time today, joy!), and was wondering is there anything wrong with the following as a driver upgrade process;
Not enabling any of the resticted drivers under KDE.
Hitting ESC from GRUB and booting to a root prompt.
Pressing Ctrl ALT F3
Running the nvidia driver install.
Sudo reboot.
I was just wondering if this process might give me more luck. I seem to be having the API mis-match issues regardless of what i do when the 180.11 drivers were enabled within KDE.
EDIT: This seems to have worked for me, i now have the 185.14 version of the nvidia drivers loaded.
I would be interested to know from people what they think i was doing wrong before. (It seems from the nvforum that Ubuntu is bloody tricky to get new nvidia drivers working on sometimes).
I had similar problems recently upgrading my nvidia drivers, with the same mismatch api errors
I found this, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-650161.html and by following the instructions there solved the problem.
hth
fido
Thanks, i will add it to the wiki.