Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes--Solved

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugh Lawson wrote: > > > Since posting, I've done some more work. > > nvidia-glx-legacy has been purged; now I have nvidia-glx. Wacko wrote: > You are mixing the two methods of installing the the nvidia module. > 1. Use the script from the nvidia site an

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Wackojacko
Hugh Lawson wrote: Since posting, I've done some more work. nvidia-glx-legacy has been purged; now I have nvidia-glx. AFAIK you don't need nvidia-glx if you are using the script from the nvidia site. nvidia-glx is for the module in the repository. Nevertheless, /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx caus

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I know you are *not* supposed to have both, so you should > purge the package nvidia-glx-legacy. You might want to restore that file > first, otherwise dpkg will complain about a missing file. Thanks Andrei, I did dpkg --purge nvidia-glx-l

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
"Owen Townend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hugh wrote: > > The init file /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx-legacy was causing the X crashes, > > by fiddling with needed links and file locations in the libraries. I > > fixed this by the following: Owen wrote: > Are you using the legacy > drivers or are t

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:43:26PM -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it > working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's > vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace > through the problem,

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 24 Mar 2008 20:43:26 -0400, Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it > working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's > vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace > through the

etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace through the problem, and perhaps somebody can point to a better way. Debian etch nVidia Cor