On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2010-07-18 11:22 +0200, Jason Filippou wrote: > >> I just installed the new 2.6.32-5-686 kernel and I've been having >> trouble installing the NVIDIA linux display driver. Usually this >> process required of me only to download the linux-headers for the >> relevant kernel release and then running the shell script provided by >> NVIDIA on their website. I tried doing this with the 190.53 driver, >> which is an old driver that worked perfectly for me, and the newest >> 256.35 driver provided by NVIDIA. > > I would recommend to use the Debian packages (nvidia-glx etc.) instead. > >> In both cases, I get the ordinary >> message about the CC check that failed because the gcc version that >> was used to compile my kernel was not the same as the one used to >> compile the driver and I also see the "compiling kernel module" >> progress bar filling up to 100%. After this, I get the following >> message: >> >> "Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This happens most >> frequently when this kernel module was build against the wrong or >> improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that >> differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver >> such as rivafb/nvidiafb is present apd prevents the NVIDIA kernel >> module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s), or >> NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is not supported by the NVIDIA >> LINUX graphics driver release." > > The reason is that "a driver such as rivafb/nvidiafb is present…", > namely the nouveau module which is new in 2.6.32-5.  You need to > blacklist it (see modprobe.conf(5) and reboot to get rid of it. > > If you had used the Debian packages this would not have happened, > because the nvidia-kernel-common package blacklists nouveau for you. > > Sven
Or, you can use the sgfxi scrip if you need/want newer drivers than are in squeeze See here: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html Regards, Angus ps I had some problems with the problems with the 32bit compat libs on AMD64 not being install correctly via sgfxi, unfortunately I had to run the nvidia installer again to fix it (ie not via sgfxi) but the script did the blacklisting for me so that helped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimhfsdith4vxfbymkb3vb2_jgsnqgjnrdrvv...@mail.gmail.com
