NVRM: API mismatches after latest update

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2009/6/16 Peter Reed <peterreed at gmx.com>:
>> 2009/6/16 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>> > F11 x86_64 with all updates:
>> >
>> > Jun 16 08:35:21 nbecker1 kernel: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the
>> > version 185.18.14, but
>> > Jun 16 08:35:21 nbecker1 kernel: NVRM: this kernel module has the version
>> > 180.51.  Please
>> > Jun 16 08:35:21 nbecker1 kernel: NVRM: make sure that this kernel module
>> > and all NVIDIA driver
>> > Jun 16 08:35:21 nbecker1 kernel: NVRM: components have the same version.
>>
>> This seems to be experienced with various place. But doesn't seems a
>> problem with the nvidia driver itself.
>> (the driver works). For some reason the package that provides the
>> kernel module hasn't been updated along with the driver, or stayed
>> installed along...
>>
>> Are you using akmod-nvidia ?
>>
>> If you do:
>> yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia (better to rm  /etc/X11/xorg.conf then).
>> Do you have a nvidia.ko or nvidia package that remains installed.
>> lsmod |grep nouveau
>> rpm -qa |grep nvidia
>>
> Hello all,
> I am receiving the same error as well.  It seems to happen not only with the
> driver packaged by rpmfusion but also the package from nvidia.  Driver 180.60
> does not seem to have this problem however.   I am not using the akmod-nvidia
> however I did try it and it does not seem to make a difference I still receive
> the same error.
> [preed at localhost ~]$ lsmod | grep nouveau
> nouveau               470896  1
This is written here http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
the 180.18.14-2 package already bundles the blacklist-nouveau.conf so
you need to do as root:
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

But this may be a separate problem as nouveau been loaded automatically.

Nicolas (kwizart)