Re: nvida driver is not working after reboot

[Jo Shields <jo.shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Sythos wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:24:24PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
>  
>
> > every time I reboot my computer (SID, kernel 2.6.13) xorg can not load 
> > the nvidia driver build with m-a.
> >    
>
> For nVidia, and *ONLY* for nVidia, I prefer download&compile directly
> from nvidia installer, there are too critical aspect every kernel
> subversion...
>
> The time spent with nv-installer is about the same of "apt-get&C."

But nvidia-installer overwrites a bunch of files dpkg is meant to handle 
(and the --uninstall option does NOT cleanly remove it).

So if your packages are upgraded (see: recent security updates to xfree 
in sarge), then your nvidia setup is half-overwritten by xfree versions. 
a nice messy mush is made.