Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-20 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:56:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Can I just delete all this /usr/src stuff? > > Well, I did, and the system still boots. Now, when it tries to start X > it complains that there isn't any nvidia driver, rather than that the > avaliable driver has an inc

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:26:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:18:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Guessing that my problems probably resulted from a faulty upgrade (and > > there was plenty of that in the xorg6.9->7.0 transition), my next step > > would s

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew -- getting desperate

2006-06-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:48:42AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I haven't been following this thread, but this approach to a problem > seems to me to be overly complicated. > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:26:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:18:03PM -0400, [EMAIL

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew -- getting desperate

2006-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
I haven't been following this thread, but this approach to a problem seems to me to be overly complicated. On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:26:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:18:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Guessing that my problems probably resulted from a

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew -- getting desperate

2006-06-19 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:18:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Guessing that my problems probably resulted from a faulty upgrade (and > there was plenty of that in the xorg6.9->7.0 transition), my next step > would seem to be to purge *all* nvidia-specific packages, remove their > .debs fr

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:18:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Guessing that my problems probably resulted from a faulty upgrade (and > there was plenty of that in the xorg6.9->7.0 transition), my next step > would seem to be to purge *all* nvidia-specific packages, remove their > .debs fr

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-18 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:35:57AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic. It works fine with > vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic. > > Both kernels are stock Debian kernels, installed from Debian etch > mirrors

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-18 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:45:33AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l -R /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/ | grep > > nvi > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root104 2006-06-14 08:30 nvidia > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root80 2006-05-16 18:14 nvidia > > /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > mv nvidia.o{,.hold} > > I take it this is the same as > > mv nvidia.o nvidia.o.hold Right, at least in bash. > > You don't have the nvidiafb module inserted, do you? It conflicts with > > nvidia. > > No. I nvidiafb is not installed. However, there is a file > > /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-16 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:35:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way of finding out which installed package a file is part > of? dpkg --search /bin/ls coreutils: /bin/ls etc. Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/ -- To

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-16 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:45:33AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l -R /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/ | grep > > nvi > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root104 2006-06-14 08:30 nvidia > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root80 2006-05-16 18:14 nvidia > > /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l -R /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/ | grep > nvi > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root104 2006-06-14 08:30 nvidia > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root80 2006-05-16 18:14 nvidia > /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73665 2006-0

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:25:58AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > > Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't? > > Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and > anything in /usr/

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't? Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and anything in /usr/lib/tls, /usr/lib/nvidia, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, and /usr/lib/xorg/