Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:22:18PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Yes. Also,
> 
> # apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-dkms
> 
> # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms
> 
> (which, in the year 2011, served to clear the driver at
> /lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/updates/dkms. But now the kernel was 3.2.) left
> the issue unaltered.
> 
> # modinfo nvidia
>    ERROR: module nvidia not found
> 
> $ dpkg -l |grep nvidia |less
> 
> shows
> 
> libl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 319.60
> 
> and
> 
> libg1-nvidia-legacy-304xx--glx:amd64 304.108-4
> 
> NVIDIA metapackage rc nvidia-glx 304.88-1-deb7u1
> 
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver 304.108-4
> 
> 
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms  304.108-4
> 
> nvidia-settings-legacy-303xx  304.108-2
> 
> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx    304.108-4
> 
> 
> Everything else 319.60-1 and cuda 5.0
> 
> I don't understand why these 304xx are threatening.
> 
> I had also run
> # nvidia-xconfig

I think you should remove all packages with legacy-304xx in the name,
and install the current ones (nvidia-kernel-dkms, nvidia-glx, etc).

legacy-304xx will never move beyond version 304.xx after all as the
name implies.

-- 
Len Sorensen