Re: nvidia not working after dist-upgrade. [WAS: Re: Help, X won't start after repartiotion of hdb]
On 4/28/05, Piszcz, Justin <jpiszcz@servervault.com> wrote:
> 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?
I just gave it a go, but the site
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html wich I
used to do this seems to be changed to be valid for 2.6 kernels.
Anyhow, I got an error message about a wrong kernel or something.
Cheers, Vegard
> -----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:/#
>
>
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