RE: nvidia not working after dist-upgrade. [WAS: Re: Help, X won't start after repartiotion of hdb]

["Piszcz, Justin" <jpiszcz@servervault.com>]

I would guess the /dev/nvidia* character devices or permissions were
changed or wiped when you 'migrated' one partition/drive to the other..

Have you tried to re-run the nvidia-installer?

-----Original Message-----
From: Vegard|drageV [mailto:vegardlr@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:39 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: nvidia not working after dist-upgrade. [WAS: Re: Help, X
won't start after repartiotion of hdb]

[...snip...]
> It seems that you have a mismatch between some combination of your
> kernel, your nvidia kernel module, and the nvidia GLX libraries.  Run
> the following command and post the results:
> 
> apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386 nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-1-386
> nvidia-glx
> 
Here's the command you asked for. 

Knoppix:/# apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386
nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-1-386 nvidia-glx
kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386:
  Installed: 2.4.27-6
  Candidate: 2.4.27-6
  Version Table:
 *** 2.4.27-6 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-1-386:
  Installed: 1.0.6111-1+2.4.27-6
  Candidate: 1.0.6111-1+2.4.27-6
  Version Table:
 *** 1.0.6111-1+2.4.27-6 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
nvidia-glx:
  Installed: 1.0.7174-3
  Candidate: 1.0.7174-3
  Version Table:
 *** 1.0.7174-3 0
        500 http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Knoppix:/#