Re: nvidia dies hard after upgrade Sarge-Etch

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote:
> (from /var/log/Xorg.log.0)
> ...
> (II) Initializing extension GLX
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4354]
> 1: [0xb7fb6420]
> 2: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2aa) [0x806e4ba]
> 3: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7db3ea8]
> 4: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806d9d1]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
>
> It does load nvidia (see below), but has problems with GLcore and GLX:

<snip logfile>

> This is what I have installed:
>
> rc  nvidia-glx                        1.0.8776-4                        
> NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
> ii  nvidia-glx-legacy                 1.0.7184-3                        
> NVIDIA binary Xorg driver (legacy version)
> rc  nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-686        1.0.8776+6                        
> NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18-4-686
> ii  nvidia-kernel-common              20051028+1                        
> NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
> ii  nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-k7       1.0.7184+6                        
> NVIDIA binary kernel module for 2.6 series compiled for k7
> ii  nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-4-486 1.0.7184+6                        
> NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18-4-486 (legacy versi
> ii  nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-4-k7  1.0.7184+6                        
> NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (legacy versio
>
>
> Some detail: I did reboot; with "nv" it works.
>
> Any hint appreciated,
>
> Uwe
>
> Please Cc: to me; the list is too busy for my newsreader

I would purge the non legacy nvidia packages (marked rc) and then try to 
upgrade the nvidia-glx-legacy package as the version is slightly 
different to the module package (-3 versus +6).

HTH

Wackojacko