Re: nvidia driver breaks when rebooting (was: reinstalling/redoing network)
On Mon February 25 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > and KDE then starts.
> > what is wrong and why doesn't xwindows work when I reboot?
> > needless to say I have an NVIDIA GEforce 7300 card..
>
> You probably tried to use the Debian nvidia packages at some point and
> you did not purge them from your system when you switched to nvidia's
> installer. Check /etc/init.d/ for the presence of nvidia-* scripts. If
> these scripts are still present then you have to purge
> nvidia-kernel-common and whatever nvidia-glx* package you had installed
> previously.
nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx were there, but the file was dated 10-28-2005.
I removed both packages.
thanks!
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Paul Cartwright
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