[Chimera-users] OpenGL misconfiguration & Nvidia

[Greg Couch]

  I don't have any experience with openSUSE, but the "Error: API 
mismatch: the NVIDIA ..." message is not coming from chimera.  Googling 
for answers suggests that rebooting might fix that error.

 From the chimera perspective, the OpenGL misconfiguration message 
appears when there are two different OpenGL libraries installed on your 
system, usually a slow software OpenGL and a fast one that uses the 
graphics hardware.  The fact that there are two means there was either a 
problem installing the NVIDIA/ATI driver or that a system update brought 
back an additional library.

On other Linux systems, when chimera detecting this problem, it was 
fixed by reinstalling the driver (and rebooting afterwards).

     Good luck,

     Greg

On 8/13/2010 11:41 AM, Hernando Sosa wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently installed the proprietary Nvidia driver in a Linux box
> (OpenSuse 11.3 64bits) and now every time that chimera start there is a
> warning dialogue saying that there is an OpenGL misconfiguration
> detected.  If I ignore the warning (press YES to continue) chimera seems
> to run fine. So my question is how can I either fix the problem or get
> rid of the warning dialogue?
>
> At the  terminal the following message is displayed when starting chimera
>
>   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 256.44,
> but this NVIDIA driver component has version 256.35.  Please make
> sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
> have the same version.
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>    I am not sure which one is "this NVIDIA driver component"  that I need
> to fix and why it was not updated when installing the proprietary driver.
>
> Thanks
>
> System details:
> Chimera version: production release 1.4.1. (for 64 bit Linux)
> Card: Nvidia geforce GT 230
> Processor: AMD Phenom X6 1090T
> OS:  64bit Linux OpenSuse 11.3
>