RE: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?
On a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, I installed a clean Wheezy release, installed nvidia drivers along with the dkms packages that go with. Because of network driver trouble, I took the kernel from sid.
After that, everything works fine. I mean, video is fine. Networking still a problem. Here is my version information:
$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.2.2 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii libgl1-nvidia-alternatives 304.88-1 amd64 transition libGL.so* diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 304.88-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libglx-nvidia-alternatives 304.88-1 amd64 transition libgl.so diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia
ii libxvmcnvidia1:amd64 304.88-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary XvMC library
ii nvidia-alternative 304.88-1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii nvidia-glx 304.88-1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20120630+3 amd64 Cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20120630+3 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 304.88-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii nvidia-settings 304.88-1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-support 20120630+3 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 304.88-1 amd64 NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 304.88-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
linux-image-3.8-1-amd64 3.8.12-1 amd64 Linux 3.8 for 64-bit PCs
ii linux-image-amd64 3.8+47 amd64 Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
Thanks. That's good to know. Only some folks are affected. I wonder why?
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