Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 15:01:57 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      After some recent upgrades, I can no longer start the xserver using 
> the nvidia driver.  I get the following errors:
> 
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> 
> The module is present, however:
> 
> $~ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/nvidia
> 
> total 10124
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10350518 2009-09-14 13:03 nvidia.ko

The Xorg error messages are about the Xorg nvidia module, which should
be at /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so.

> Any ideas what has happened?  Thanks.

The most likely scenario is that you accidentally removed the nvidia-glx
package from your system.

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