Re: problem with nvidia module and kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 SOLVED

[Rich Griffiths <richgrif@one.net>]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:20:04 +0200, Norbert Zeh wrote:

>> 'aptitude search nvidia' showed the following packages as installed:
>>   nvidia-settings
>>   nvidia-kernel-common
>>   nvidia-xconfig
>>   nvidia-glx
>>   nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64
> 
> I'm just guessing, but shouldn't you install
> nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64 if you run linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64?  At
> least an aptitude search nvidia showed me this package as installable.
> 
> Cheers,
> Norbert

You're right Norbert!  Many thanks.

I don't know how I missed that, which is literally exactly what I did.  I 
scanned the listings for a '-2-' version of the nvidia-kernel and just 
didn't see it.  You prompted me to look again, and of course it was there.

I'm still wondering how the system seemed to be working fine for 3 months 
with the '-2-' image and the '-1-' nvidia, but I'm delighted to have the 
current problem solved so simply.

-- 
Rich