OH OH Now I really did it, Help!

[martinje]

Doh! Well in my quest to get Beryl fully operational, I read I needed the latest drivers from the Nvidia web page. So I went to nvidia.com and downloaded them. I stopped my GUI and went to a new terminal by pressing alt and F2. Well I log in, went to the directory where the NVIDIA drivers where starting and used the following command. “sudo sh NVIDIA-driver info” Well it did something, and said it will have to rebuild my kernel or something of that sorts and I was jumping with joy thinking I got this drivers working without a guide. (Just when I felt, maybe the people in the forums are right and I don’t need a guide to do anything out of the ordinary.) Well when Ubuntu started BOOM! I get a blue screen (reminds me of blue screen of death in windows) with the following “Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem? (I said yes)


This is the error I see

Error: API mismatch: the nvidia kernel module has the version 1.0-7184 but this X module has the version 1.0-9746. Please make sure that the kernel module and all the NVIDIA driver components have the same version. Failed to initialized the Nvidia Kernel Module!


So this is where I find myself now and have no idea how to fix it. So I am open to suggestions. I thought Nvidia recompile the kernel for me. Thanks

BTW this is in Ubuntu 6.10 and I followed the guide on the Beryl Wiki and thats where I got the idea of getting the drivers and not using the ones in automatix, like I always do :( ... I hate to say it but Im still a noob in Linux .... :( :( :(

[BIGEE1212]

What did you do in the beryl wiki? The automated installation (where it says berl yl with nvidia 1.9xxx or something like that) or did you try and install aiglx manually? Hopefully you made a backup of your xorg.conf somewhere, if not run this:

dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

[seablade]

Error: API mismatch: the nvidia kernel module has the version 1.0-7184 but this X module has the version 1.0-9746. Please make sure that the kernel module and all the NVIDIA driver components have the same version. Failed to initialized the Nvidia Kernel Module!


So it looks like what you described worked, it rebuilt the module for your kernel. Unfortunately you didn't rebuild the X driver that utilizes said module. Two similar, but still different things.

Now to be perfectly honest, you did things the difficult way in getting the drivers, but if you get it working you will be that much more knowledgeable;) For further reference you can get the nvidia drivers through apt/synaptic just like you can many other packages, and that is generally the better way of doing things.

In order for me to help you, I would need to see the link you are referring to to be able to tell where you are and what may have been missed.

Seablade

[martinje]

this is where I got into beryl instalations instructions

Running the nVidia installation package
For the installation of the nVidia drivers to continue, X.org must be shut down. Note that after executing the following command, it is not possible to return to a graphical interface until X.org is restarted.

One way to shutdown the X.org server is by stopping GDM. To do so, execute

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
Now, actually running the installer is possible. Run

sudo sh ./<nvidia_installation_pkg_filename>
where <nvidia_installation_pkg_filename> is the filename of the previously downloaded package. The actual installation and compilation of the kernel modules is automatic and, in general, the selection of the default choice at each prompt should suffice. However, you should not run the nvidia-xconfig (configuration) utility from the installation, please wait until after the installation to do so (the default invocation will not enable the required ARGBGLXVisuals option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf).

After the installation of the drivers is complete, a prompt will appear. Execute

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals
and restart GDM and X11 with

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

Thats where I stand now and it loads the errors that I list when I try to load the GUI.
Really Sea Blade, I can install the Nvidia drivers from synaptics, now I really feel like a total noob.

[seablade]

Since most importantly at the moment is to get your XOrg working again with the driver mismatch, lets just concentrate on these instructions for the moment...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

Go ahead through these and tell me if this helps get it working again?

Seablade

[martinje]

ok Im back up and running with latest NVIDIA drivers but still have 1 Issue please see new post.

[seablade]

Yea it appears for some reason someone removed the entire section from the Beryl Wiki on installing via synaptics/apt which means all that is left are the more difficult options you found unfortunately. First lets get your xorg working again, then you can give the rest of the Beryl setup a shot from right after installing the graphics drivers.

Seablade

[seablade]

Uh what new post?

Seablade

[seablade]

Oh dang PMs;)

Unfortunately Martin I would go ahead and post that here, I do not have experience running Beryl, I prefer my e17 setups as most of what Beryl does I find eye candy for the purpose of eye candy and doesn't look all that good or add functionality over what I can do in e17 or at the very least e17 with compositing.

Seablade

[martinje]

Thanks for trying Seablade.