Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 21:09:35 + (UTC) Jarth Berilcosm wrote: Hello Jarth, >Yeah, i lost focus due to frustrations and wrote down an incorrect >pathname. Should have had some tea much sooner ;-) Tea? How very British of you. :-D >What i've figured so far is nomodeset is mostly required b

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-25 Thread Jarth Berilcosm
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 08:46:21 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:17:17 + (UTC) > Jarth Berilcosm wrote: > > Hello Jarth, > >>Honestly, i don't know what's going with Debian lately. Wheezy looked >>promising and has been quite a dissapointment when it comes to package >>qualit

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:02:42 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >it got left over. The nvidia driver offered to register with it for >automatic updates. So I still get the main reason for changing. Good to hear your system is working properly again. A good catch on the Xorg nouveau call. I'd hav

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:17:17 + (UTC) Jarth Berilcosm wrote: Hello Jarth, >Honestly, i don't know what's going with Debian lately. Wheezy looked >promising and has been quite a dissapointment when it comes to package >quality. It's strange, isn't it; I've not had any problems at all. Adm

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-24 Thread Jarth Berilcosm
Hi, I've ran into the same issues on an old NVidia Quadro FX 360M. Honestly, i don't know what's going with Debian lately. Wheezy looked promising and has been quite a dissapointment when it comes to package quality. Golden hint include nomodeset in /etc/default/grub on the line GRUB_CMD_LINE

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-24 Thread Jon N
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: <---snip---> >>have any trouble doing that. But I don't want to have a package from >>repository still installed at the same time as the nvidia download. > > There are problems with that as you can imagine. Debian packages can > get confused

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:05:51 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >The card is a 8600 GT, which does use the latest drivers. in fact, I >uninstalled 319.76 that I had downloaded from nvida to install 319.76 Okay, now I know what GPU you've got. And yes, you're right of course, it uses the 319 drive

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Jon N
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:35:52 -0500 > Jon N wrote: > > Hello Jon, > >>I did check that, but it looks OK (correct version installed). >> >>Thanks, > > No problem. I've just re-read your original message, and picked up on > some stuff I missed

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:35:52 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >I did check that, but it looks OK (correct version installed). > >Thanks, No problem. I've just re-read your original message, and picked up on some stuff I missed previously. Specifically, stuff about version number mismatches (319

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Jon N
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:15:25 -0500 > Jon N wrote: > > Hello Jon, > >>I love the idea of not having to re-installed the downloaded Nvidia >>drivers every time the kernel updates (plus it seems to keep breaking) >>so I would like to get this to

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Jon N
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 dec 13, 19:15:25, Jon N wrote: >> >> "NWRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 304.108, but this >> kernel module has the version 319.76. Please make sure that this >> kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:15:25 -0500 Jon N wrote: Hello Jon, >I love the idea of not having to re-installed the downloaded Nvidia >drivers every time the kernel updates (plus it seems to keep breaking) >so I would like to get this to work. Any suggestions? As Andrei has said, make sure you have

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 22 dec 13, 19:15:25, Jon N wrote: > > "NWRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 304.108, but this > kernel module has the version 319.76. Please make sure that this > kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version." > > That sounds simple enough, but I have sea

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Jon N wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Jon N wrote: <---snip---> > It's getting late so I'm going to have to look at this again in the > morning. I think I should be able to make a new blacklist file for > nouveau (hopefully you can't have it blacklis

Re: Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Jon N wrote: > I have been getting pretty good with breaking my system lately. Today > I got it in mind to stop downloading the Nvidia binary driver and > installing it myself and switch to using the version available as a > Debian package. I first uninstalled th

Nvidia package installation problems

2013-12-22 Thread Jon N
I have been getting pretty good with breaking my system lately. Today I got it in mind to stop downloading the Nvidia binary driver and installing it myself and switch to using the version available as a Debian package. I first uninstalled the downloaded version and rebooted to the normal desktop