NVRM: API mismatches after latest update

[Neal Becker]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Peter Reed wrote:
> > 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
> drm                   205980  2 nouveau
> i2c_algo_bit            5972  2 bttv,nouveau
> i2c_core               22240  13
> tvaudio,tda7432,tuner_simple,tea5767,tuner,bttv,v4l2_common,tveeprom,i2c_nf
>orce2,nvidia,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit
>
> [preed at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64
>
> I did find a solution to this problem, however, I had to follow these
> directions in this post and everything seems to be working now:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1114769&postcount=1
> This came from a post to rpmfusion-users list.
> Peter


Banishing nouveau and rebooting seems to have worked.