Thursday upgrade borked my nvidia drivers
An sarge upgrade on Thursday has made my nvidia driver unusable. I run the
debian 2.24.7 prebuilt kernel. I believe it was the upgrade from 2.24.7-7 to
2.24.7-8 that has caused the problem but I'm not certain what else was
upgraded any more.
installed kernel stuff
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 2.4.27-8
kernel-pcmci-modules 2.4.27-8
Opt contrib/ nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.7167-1
Opt devel/ kernel-headers 2.4.27-8
Opt non-free/ nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686 1.0.7167+1
If I do an "insmod nividia" I get:
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/nvidia/nvidia.o will taint the
kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
taintedmodules
Module nvidia loaded, with warnings
lsmod also shows the driver loaded. Seems ok, but when I do a startx I get the
following error message:
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available
So naturally X craps out. The "nv" driver still works fine but as I do a lot
of 3D work it isn't really a solution for me. Anybody have an idea what
might be wrong? Perhaps something I have to do with grub because of the new
kernel?
Thanks in advance,
R.Pluschke
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