Aleksander Okonski wrote: > Hey, > > I have run into a strange problem with my nvidia drivers and gentoo. I am > currently > running kernel 4.14.14 and I upgraded my x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to 390.42 > from 390.25. > Once the new drivers were installed I rebooted my laptop. Once rebooted I was > unable to > start the xorg server using startx and was greeted with errors. The > /var/logs/xorg.0.log > said that the problem was with the kernel module. Looking at dmesg I see that > I am getting > the error: > > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 390.42, but this kernel module > has version > 390.25. please make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver > components have the > same version. >
I had a similar problem for months, finally I looked into /lib or /usr/lib (I think it was an nvidia/ subdirectory of these) and found that some symlinks where pointing to old versions of the libraries provided by nvidia. I adjusted the symlinks to point to the new versions and the message disappeared. Sorry I cannot be more precise but it was some time ago and right now I'm on an nvidia-less system. Note that in my case it was just an annoying log message, the server did start successfully. raffaele
