Bug#623955: nvidia-glx: regressions with GeForce 8200

[Marc Glisse]

On Mon, 30 May 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> On 2011-05-29 10:22, Marc Glisse wrote:
> ...
>> upgraded, and everything was back to working fine, except that I got a
>> warning every time I started an opengl application that there was a
>> version mismatch. Then I rebooted, and the problems were back. And I
>> seem to remember the same thing happening at the last upgrade, except
>> that I assumed it was an hallucination. And downgrading has the same
>> effect. So basically it seems to only work well when there is a version
>> mismatch :-/
>
> What is the exact version mismatch error message?

"Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 270.41.06,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 270.41.19.  Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version."

which sounds normal as long as I haven't rebooted.

glxinfo says "direct rendering: No" but glxinfo and xdpyinfo both show all 
GLX features as available. And the computer works very nicely.

I have no idea if it is working "properly", or just disabled a broken part 
of the GPU use and let the CPU do everything (which might be powerful 
enough that I don't notice anything wrong as I don't use very intensive 
graphics applications).

-- 
Marc Glisse