Hello list, I was having some trouble running openGL in my Debian testing, 2.6.32-5-686 kernel version system. I have an NVIDIA card and ran the driver provided by nvidia-kernel-dkms. The problem was that when I ran glxinfo, I got:
glxinfo: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: _nv000006gl so I decided to google a bit, ending up on an arch linux distribution link which suggested that a certain filesystem folder be deleted: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12771. This folder was /usr/lib/tls. After I -apparently wrongfully- deleted it, my 2.6.32-5-686 kernel gets stuck during loading of the X server, and once I see or skip through the error messages, I don't even get a shell to do some typing to. Luckily, I had a 2.6.32-3-686 kernel in my system, which, unfortunately, doesn't load X either. This particular kernel version, does, however, give me a shell, yet I have tried lots of things, such as reinstalling the 5-686 kernel ( I don't want to mess around with the 3-686 image and end up with an unusable installation), re-installing the xserver-xorg package, even removing nvidia-kernel-dkms and trying to install one of three NVIDIA installers I already had in my home folder: 190.53, 195.36.08, 256.35). However, trying to run every one of those installer scripts tells me that I do not have the appropriate source files for the kernel that I'm running (which, I would like to remind you, is currently 2.6.32-3-686). I tried installing the appropriate linux-headers package, however, there seems to not exist a linux-headers-2.6.32-3-686 package. I also reinstalled linux-source-2.6.32 and linux-source-2.6, yet the NVIDIA installers will still not run. Installing nvidia-kernel-source doesn't help either. So I'm stuck with a kernel I can not even run a shell from, and another older one which doesn't appear to be of much help to me. Anything I could do? Currently posting from my laptop. When I run startx, I get a bunch of errors, such as: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 190.53, but this NVIDIA driver component has version 195.36.31. Please make sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version. (EE) Dec 29 14:38:15 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIa kernel module. . . . (EE) NVIDIA(0): ***Aborting*** (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatar server error: no screens found. . . . xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Thanks for any help, as I'm not sure what to do here. Please do CC me as I am not on the list. -- Jason Filippou http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06142 -- 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/aanlktik62qsnmfxdq_yxqffmxfrtbdcsvt0c-nsee...@mail.gmail.com
