Re: Plymouth only displays text bar
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:04:20 +0100, didier gaumet wrote:
> Le Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:15:19 +0000 (UTC), Ramon Hofer
> <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch> a écrit :
>
> [...]
>> So if I get you right, I'm fine when I install linux-image-amd64 and
>> nvidia-glx both from the squeeze backports?
>
> That's what I was thinking: to install the kernel and the nvidia driver
> from the same repo (either stable or backports) but I see now that
> nvidia-glx from backports depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms (which depends
> on dkms, which depends on linux-headers), so, in theory, you could
> install stable nvidia-glx and a backported kernel and the right nvidia
> kernel module should be built.
> All from the same repo would probably be simpler, though.
>
> [...]
>> > I still would suggest you to run
>> > # update-initramfs -u -k all
>> > in order to update the initrd images of all installed kernels
>>
>> I removed the squeeze backports kernel so it shouldn't be necessary
>> anymore?
>
> If you have only one kernel or if it is the latest of the installed
> ones: no it should not be necessary
>
>> Now I've just tried to install those two packages. The kernel installed
>> without problems:
>> http://pastebin.com/py1W6xCS
>>
>> But when I want to install nvidia-glx from squeeze backports I get this
>> message:
>> nvidia-glx is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly
>> installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded.
>>
>> But apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't do anything...
>>
>> Maybe the apt just doesn't take the right repo?
>>
>> Here's the output of apt-get -t squeeze-backports install nvidia-glx:
>> http://pastebin.com/dbiAbndp
>
> That's right: from the version numbers of your log, apt-get does not
> take into consideration the backported version of nvidia-glx. I have
> never used the -t option of apt-get/aptitude: maybe this option implies
> that it installs only the package from the specified repo but not its
> dependencies from that specified repo? Maybe then you would have to
> specify pinnings in /etc/apt/preferences? Or "apt-get install -t" first
> the dependencies of nvidia-glx before apt-getting -t nvidia-glx itself?
> I really don't know, I have rarely used backports in the past so don't
> take my word for it...
Ok. Thanks alot for all your infos!
I will try it again tomorrow...
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