Re: Nvidia drivers

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

Do you have nvidia-glx installed?  That's what I think you need.

Install nouveau (that should clean out all the Debian nvidia stuff) then 
clean out the nvidia stuff that you installed privately, then install 
nvidia-glx.

On 04/18/2011 11:28 AM, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I've recently after Squeeze went stable, changed my sources.list from
> having the keyword testing to stable.
>
> I've tried
> apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-nvidia-glx
>
> apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms
>
> which reinstalled those files but I think that there may be a linking
> problem in
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /usr/lib/libGLc*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       22 Apr 18 15:38 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 ->
> libGLcore.so.195.36.31
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20713400 Jan 12  2010 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.190.53
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28862968 Jun  3  2010 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.195.36.31
>
> Again any advice, and I'd be very grateful,
>
> Best regards
> James
>
> On 19/04/11 02:16, Vivek Periaraj wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, James Allsopp wrote:
> > > On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp
> > > > <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com>  said:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi, My source.list has the following;
> > > > >
> > > > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> > > > > deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> > > Done, that and still get the same error; full output is
> > > Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms No packages
> > > will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not
> > >    upgraded.  Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be
> > >    used.  W: Did not understand pin type *
> >
> > For me, nvidia-kernel-dkms is in testing and above and not in stable.
> >
> > Here's the output:
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-dkms
> > nvidia-kernel-dkms:
> >    Installed: (none)
> >    Candidate: 260.19.44-1
> >    Version table:
> >       270.30-1 0
> >          200 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/non-free i386
> >          Packages
> >       260.19.44-1 0
> >          400 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free i386
> >          Packages
> >      300 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free i386
> >      Packages
> >
> > So I would suggest adding testing to your repos. I have this:
> >
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> >
> > Regards,
> > V.


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