Re: NVIDIA mismatch

[Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>]

On Tue November 28 2006 08:42 am, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Tue November 28 2006 02:58 am, frapietra@alice.it wrote:
> > 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.
>
> When I built that module I had to add unstable to my /etc/apt/sources.list
> and then apt-get update and then rebuild the module with "m-a a-i nvidia"

I almost forgot,

Be sure to remove the unstable lines from your sources.list and apt-get update 
before you do anything else with apt, unless you want to run unstable.. :)

> That needs to get done whenever you upgrade your kernel.