Version mismatch reinstalling display drivers

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The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Feb 11, Messages 9. Possible reasons include: version mismatch. Reinstalling display drivers may solve the problem. The error message disappears after four attempts to close it, and then the normal right-click menu appears.

This also worked for me. Some instructions include sudo reboot now and others don't. Show 12 more comments. First, we should know which drivers are loaded. Comzyh Comzyh 4, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. KiralyCraft The wrong one is no longer exists on disk, but still in memory. Had no idea this was what caused the problem. So rebooting does the same thing? It's not a clean installation at all..

Not worked for me. The error message was opaque, but checking dmesg was key: [ So I recompiled my kernel: uname -a find the kernel it's using Linux blah 4. Thanks a lot! It's a good idea to use locate nvidia-smi. I used the command figuring out that another driver was installed. Add a comment. It works.

Sometimes the uninstall file does not exist. I did this and now i dont have any nvidia drivers installed on my computer. I can see how removing one of the conflicting versions can help, but the suggested solution as it stands looks carelessly destructive.

I tried it anyway, but neither would even run. I recommend not following this answer. Do we need to install something or what? Long Long 14 14 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. Had the issue too. I'm running ubuntu Benjamin Crouzier Benjamin Crouzier I don't know why this was marked down I incremented it to 0.

The command "dpkg -l grep -i nvidia" is valid and shows what is not deleted. I particularly liked selective purging and then listing of available drivers. So a solution to the described problem on Ubuntu Stefan Horning Stefan Horning 9 9 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. This and a restart did it for me! Mostly reboot would fix the issue on Ubuntu Sushena Sushena 61 7 7 bronze badges. I had reinstalled nvidia driver: run these commands in root mode: systemctl isolate multi-user.

BarzanHayati BarzanHayati 6 6 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Berat Berat 19 3 3 bronze badges. I have to restart my kernels and remove all the packages that I have installed previously during the first installation , please make sure to delete all the packages, even after removing packages by command below sudo apt-get --purge remove " nvidia " the packages like "libtinfo6:i" doesn't get removed I'm using Ubuntu Gaurav Ghati Gaurav Ghati 9 1 1 bronze badge.

Tom Tom 2, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. First I installed the Nvidia driver.