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I have fixed the problem of installing the nvidia kernel source. I had written nonfree instead of non-free (forgot the hyphen!) in the respository description and so apt couldn't find the right packages in sid. The problem I have now is one that has I think been mentioned in another post on this site where running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg wouldn't let me choose the type of graphics card as nvidia as it did the last time I got the nvidia card successfully installed and configured. It stops after sniffing around at the keyboard and mouse stuff. It shuts up shop, writes a version of the xorg file with something weird like xorg.2008042508 after it and says it is worried about overwriting a special modification of the xorg configuration. It then uses the vesa dumb graphics card setting to display the screen and ignores all the work I did installing the nvidia kernel. I will keep hacking away at it and I will get there in the end. Thanks for help from everyone on the site. You are real gents. Regards Michael Fothergill > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:44 -0500 > From: chptma@gmail.com > To: mikef20000@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: problems reinstalling nvidia cards after crash of Xorg.conf compiz edit forced OS reinstall... > > I'm not an exim expert... > > 1 if you don't need exim don't install it... > 2 there are a couple o flavors of exim try the other one... > > On 4/24/08, Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:20:37 -0500 > > > From: chptma@gmail.com > > > To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: problems reinstalling nvidia cards after crash of Xorg.conf compiz edit forced OS reinstall... > > > > > > you have a incomplete installation of exim, that needs to be corrected... > > > > > How do I go about fixing exim4 ? > > > > I tried reinstalling it from my dvd but it didn't help... > > > > Suggestions welcome. > > > > Regards > > > > Michael Fothergill > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Search and win with BigSnapSearch.com > > http://www.bigsnapsearch.com > > > > > -- > Perhaps the depth of > love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are > actively involved in a given relationship. > > Carl Sagan (Contact) > > Jaime Ochoa Malagón > Integrated Technology > Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10 Get fish-slapping on Messenger Play Now! |