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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #873929
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 873929

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Wichert Akkerman (wichert) wrote :

I did a quick attempt to use an older nvidia driver by modifying /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphic-drivers.conf like so:

#blacklist nvidia-173
#alias nvidia nvidia_current
blacklist nvidia_current
alias nvidia nvidia-173

But this did not work due to API version conflicts with the X driver:

[ 310.056496] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 173.14.30 Sat Apr 16 21:49:29 PDT 2011
[ 321.209685] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 280.13, but
[ 321.209686] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 173.14.30. Please
[ 321.209687] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 321.209688] NVRM: components have the same version.