Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze [SOLVED]

2011-06-26 Thread Aidan Gauland
Aidan Gauland writes: > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. When seeing that the Nvidia > drivers in sid are the same version as those direct from Nvidia's > website, I tried upgrading the nvidia driver packages on my syste

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:58:42 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with >> dependencies. > > Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia > installer warns me that > > "The compiler used to compile

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 25 June 2011 09:52:08 pm lee wrote: > > "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly > > match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module > > loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not > > exactly match that of

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Aidan Gauland writes: > Camaleón writes: > >> You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with >> dependencies. > > Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia > installer warns me that If you ask in #debian on irc.debian.org, you'll be told that the insta

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Aidan Gauland
Camaleón writes: > You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with > dependencies. Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia installer warns me that "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Aidan Gauland writes: > What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze? Perhaps you're missing some packages? , | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ dpkg --get-selections |grep -i nvidia | libgl1-nvidia-alternatives install | libgl1-nvidia-glx

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Yes, I had wondered myself if there aren't incompatibilities, even if > the packages are not marked as conflicting. I think it might be easier > to go the non-Debian, Nvidia way (sadly). On Debian, how can I undo > whatever the Nvidia installer does? I'd feel more comfortable running > it, kn

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 20:33, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. Seeing that the version of the > Nvidia drivers in sid were the same as those direct from Nvidia's > website, I tried upgrading the drive

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Aidan Gauland
"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Hi Aidan! > Did you install the nvidia-glx package? Yes, that was pulled in by nvidia-kernel-dkms (directly or indirectly). > A good way to see, what is happening, is to move /etc/init.d/kdm out of the > way, Doing so, it will not start at boot. > > After boot, you

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:46:26 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. Weird, unless the new card is not suported by the installed driver. > When seeing that the Nvidia drivers in sid are the same

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> So I then tried purging (and downgrading back to squeeze any packages > that were upgraded as dependencies of) the nvidia packages and > installing nvidia-kernel-dkms (as directed by > ). Still no joy; > the same error. > > What do I need