Debian version is Squeeze Kernel is 2.6.30-2-686 I'm unable to install and use the nvidia drivers. Nvidia-glx removes xserver-xorg. The gui is gone when restarted. The only way to recover is to reinstall xserver-xorg which removes the nvidia drivers.
Terminal readout: debian:/home/cmm# apt-get install nvidia-glx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: xorg-docs-core xfonts-scalable openssl-blacklist libcompress-bzip2-perl acl xfonts-base libgraphviz4 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: nvidia-settings The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following NEW packages will be installed: nvidia-glx 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 38 to remove and 35 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/7,680kB of archives. After this operation, 7,938kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 180836 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xserver-xorg-input-all ... Removing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics ... Removing xserver-xorg-input-wacom ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-all ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-voodoo ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-vmware ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-vesa ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-v4l ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-tseng ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-trident ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-tdfx ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-sisusb ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-sis ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-savage ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-s3virge ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-s3 ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-rendition ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-ati ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-r128 ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-openchrome ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-nv ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-neomagic ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-mga ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-mach64 ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-intel ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-i740 ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-i128 ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-fbdev ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-cirrus ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-chips ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-radeon ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-ark ... Removing xserver-xorg ... Removing xserver-xorg-video-apm ... Removing xserver-xorg-input-evdev ... Removing xserver-xorg-core ... Processing triggers for hal ... Regenerating hal fdi cache ... Restarting Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Processing triggers for man-db ... Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx. (Reading database ... 180443 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nvidia-glx (from .../nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_i386.deb) ... Setting up nvidia-glx (173.14.09-5) ... update-rc.d: warning: nvidia-glx stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (none) debian:/home/cmm# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
