Re: broken nvidia package, is there a work around?
Nvidia's proprietary driver for some reason just doesn't want to play
nice.
I managed to get it installed -- with the advice given :-) in response
to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg03819.html -- but it
only works sort of. I get the nvidia splash screen and the display
seems to be fine... KDE loads as I think it should. However, a whole
bunch of applications don't work.
The TV Tuner is busted. I get a blue screen when I run 'xawtv' --
which according to this --> http://www.charmed.com/support9.htm <--
it means the driver is loaded (and the tuner card was detected).
Then, when running Mozilla I managed to get the error message:
"libmikmod.so.2 is not a registered protocol"
I then noticed XMMS doesn't work. When I try to start it at the command
line I get this:
-----
$ xmms
libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/generic/dl-tls.c: 72:
_dl_next_tls_modid: Assertion `result <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_max_dtv_idx'
failed!
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After some more searching I found this post:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/11/msg00444.html
It says: "...this bug is almost certainly related to the nvidia-glx
drivers..."
I didn't find anything that jumped out at me in '/var/log/XFree86.0.log'
This post suggests it is related to 'libGLcore.so':
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/11/msg00448.html
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The above seems to suggest problems with the glx drivers.
Has any one encountered a problem like this before?
Does it matter that I'm running the '2.6.6-1-386' kernel (on an Athlon 2200
XP processor)?
Could this be a bug in the proprietary driver?
PACKAGES INSTALLED --- SNIPPAGE OF DESCRIPTION
========================================
$ COLUMNS=132 dpkg --list |grep kernel
ii adjtimex 1.16-1
ii initrd-tools 0.1.70
ii iproute 20010824-13.1
ii iptables 1.2.9-9
ii kcmlinuz 3.2.2-1
ii kernel-headers-2.6.6-1 2.6.6-1
ii kernel-headers-2.6.6-1-386 2.6.6-1
ii kernel-image-2.6.6-1-386 2.6.6-1
ii kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 2.6.6-1
ii kernel-package 8.090
ii libdirectfb-0.9-20 0.9.20-1
ii module-init-tools 3.0-pre10-4
ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.6-1-386 1.0.5336-6
ii nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.5336-1
ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.5336-6
ii pciutils 2.1.11-11
$ COLUMNS=132 dpkg --list |grep nvidia
ii nvidia-glx 1.0.5336-6
ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.6-1-386 1.0.5336-6
ii nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.5336-1
ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.5336-6
michael@stokes:~$
Hardware/Software
========================================
Athlon 2200 XP
ASUS A7N8X (Motherboard)
ASUS V8420 - NVIDIA GeForce 4
Viewsonic PF790
512 MB RAM
Debian Sarge
2.6.6-1-386 Kernel
KDE 3.2.2
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