Re: Why Is This Install Wanting to Remove My Kernel Image?

[Scarletdown <scarletdown@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 18:43 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: 
> Hello
> 
> Scarletdown (<gsutton9503@wavecable.com>) wrote:
> 
> > I've had this happen twice.  Both times, I aborted the install of
> > course).  The first time was when I wanted to install AbiWord, the
> > second time was just a few minutes ago, when I was going to install
> > flpsed so that I could complete an important form to email back to
my
> > squadron.  When I did the apt-get install, one of the messages that
> > came up was this:
> > 
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   kernel-image-2.6.9-1-k7
> 
> I think the kernel-image-Packages are being renamed, try to install
> linux-image-2.6-k7 which depends on linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7.

Okay, I installed 2.6.12-1-k7.  When I reboot with that kernel image I
get this:

(EE) NVIDIA(0) Failed to initialize the NVIDIA Kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0) *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error!
no screens found

Everything works fine when I reboot back to Kernel 2.6.9-1-k7.

I'm suspecting that the problem is due to my using the NVIDIA Twin-View
feature of my video card, with the S-Video port connected to the VCR (so
I can watch non-U.S. DVDs on the TV instead of at my desk.

Any ideas how I can get this to work with 2.6.12?  here's my
XF86Config-4 file (or at least, the relevant parts of the file):

Section "ServerLayout" 
  Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
  Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Card0"
  Driver      "nvidia"
  Option "NvAGP"  "3"
  Option "DigitalVibrance"  "0"
  Option "TransparentIndex"  "0"
  Option "CursorShadowAlpha"  "64"
  Option "CursorShadowXOffse"  "4"
  Option "CursorShadowYOffset"  "2"
  Option "Twinview"  "TRUE"
  Option "TwinViewOrientation"  "Clone"
  Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync"  "30-50"
  Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh"  "60"
  Option "TVOutFormat?" "COMPOSITE"
  Option "TVOverScan?" "1.0"
  Option "MetaModes"  "1280x1024,800x600"
  Option "ConnectedMonitor"  "CRT,TV"
# Driver "nv"
   VendorName  "All"
   BoardName "All"
 #BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"
  EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen0"
  Device "Card0"
  Monitor "Monitor0"
  DefaultColorDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 1
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 4
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 8
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 15
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 16
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 32
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection



  # Only the official NVIDIA driver supports twinview
  # these setting are an example
#  Option "TwinView" "true"
#  Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-82"
#  Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-75"
#  Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768;
640x480, NULL"
#  Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
#  Option "ConnectedMonitor" "dfp,dfp"
EndSection