Just before Andrew's message, I tried:
1) Added "unstable" to sources.list
2) # apt-get update
3) # m-a a-i nvidia
which reports that "installation of the nvidia-kernel source failed; maybe you have to add contrib non-free."
Actually contrib non-free were there.
I thought that previous installation with "m-a a-i nvidia" should be first removed before rebuilding the module with this command. However,
#apt-get --purge remove nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-k7
does not remove.
#apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r) nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
reports the same status below for all three packages, except fo the presence ofr "unstable" candidate1.0.8776-2 for nvidia-glx in addition to 1.0.8756-4 0.
Hope you understand what to do.
Cheers
francesco pietra
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy@netfall.com]
Inviato: mer 29/11/2006 5.14
A: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Oggetto: Re: NVIDIA mismatch
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:23:45AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Tue November 28 2006 08:42 am, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > On Tue November 28 2006 02:58 am, frapietra@alice.it wrote:
> > > Sending from my provider (previous attempt apparently failed) while
> > > receiving at my usual address. Writing from knoppix pivot-root install of
> > > debian because my X system suddenly broken (mismatch of nvis kernel
> > > module (1.0.8756) and X module version (1.0.7174) following apt-get
> > > upgrade. I also lost address debian users. I took the opportunity to
> > > upgrade from 2.6.15 without success (main contrib non-free present in
> > > sources.list debian).
> > >
> > > 1) nvidia-installer --uninstall
> > >
> > > 2)apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7
> > > installing 2.6.17-2-k7
> > >
> > > 3)reboot
> > >
> > > 4)m-a -i -prepare
> > > installing headers and kbuild
> > >
> > > 5)m-a a-i nvidia
> > >
> > > apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-$(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.. :)
Or, you could leave that in sources.list and simply add a line similar
to this one
APT::Default-Release "etch";
to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. I usually use the name of the release
rather than the alias ('testing' for 'etch') as that prevents me from
doing an "accidental dist-upgrade" if, say, etch were to be released
without me knowing it ~:^)
Cheers,
a
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