Sending from my provider (previous attempt apparently failed) while receiving at my usual address. Writing from knoppix pivot-root install of debian because my X system suddenly broken (mismatch of nvis kernel module (1.0.8756) and X module version (1.0.7174) following apt-get upgrade. I also lost address debian users.
I took the opportunity to upgrade from 2.6.15 without success (main contrib non-free present in sources.list debian).
1) nvidia-installer --uninstall
2)apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7
installing 2.6.17-2-k7
3)reboot
4)m-a -i -prepare
installing headers and kbuild
5)m-a a-i nvidia
apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r) nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
shows
n-vidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-k7 (1.0.8762-2+2.6.17-9)
nvidia-kernel-common (20051028+1 0)
nvidia-glx
not installed and no candidate (I was unable to install it)
Hope to get help although I regret not to have learned in the past how to do.
Sincerely
francesco pietra