NVidia kernel driver and X.org driver differences

[jdh15]

After installing Kubuntu 6.06 from one of my CD's, I tried to install the NVidia drivers.  I got the latest ones from the NVidia website, and they installed fine, and X.org seemed to run ok.  But, upon rebooting, X stopped working, spewing out an error about different NVidia driver versions for the kernel and X (kernel: 7174, X.org: 8762).

Was the kernel that Kubuntu uses compiled with specific NVidia drivers or something? Because this is sure not making sense, and I have never had this problem with previous versions of Kubuntu.

[svein]

Re: NVidia kernel driver and X.org driver differences

Yes, you have to match up the driver and the kernel.
Maybe this will help you the same way that it helped me:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper