On Jo, 27 oct 11, 18:03:56, Brad Alexander wrote: > Okay, I know it is bad form to respond to one's own posts, however, I came > across some new information. I rolled back to 280.13.really.275.28-1, and > although the performance is back to being substandard, I have my X back. > > I started thinking about this, and want to pose a question. This machine was > last rebuilt in 2006 or 2007, and back then, amd64 wasn't "there" yet. So I > built it i386 (its a c2d machine, so either would work). Sometime about 2 > years ago, the system clock started running *really* fast (2-3 hours gained > per day), even with ntp running. I posted to the list and someone suggested > running an amd64 kernel. So I have this frankenbox that is on my todo list > to rebuild with amd64 userspace as well as the kernel. > > This is the only thing I can figure that might be causing my problems on the > workstation. I have never had problems with the nvidia configuration in > previous versions and kernels, but is there something unique or new to > 290.03 that might be causing the problem? $ uname -a Linux think 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 5 13:56:27 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ dpkg --print-architecture i386 $ dpkg -l nvidia-glx | grep ^ii ii nvidia-glx 290.06-1 NVIDIA metapackage However, I did get your error because I forgot to unload the old nvidia module. You can diagnose this if you look in /var/log/syslog, I got: Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995242] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 290.06, but Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995244] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 275.36. Please Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995245] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver Nov 8 23:56:20 think kernel: [ 837.995247] NVRM: components have the same version. but X started without any issues after I ran 'modprobe -r nvidia'. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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