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 from apt-cache, reconstruct the locate database, look for any > remaining files with a reasonable facsimile of "nvidia" in their names > and delete them, look for any stray files not part of any package and > delete any that look suspicious, and then begin to install the stuff > again from scratch, downloading .debs, compiling kernel modules, etc.
I have now purged every package that contains 'nvidia' as part of its name, and cleared the apt-cache so that if I ever start installing such packages I can be sure of getting a fresh download. But I still find nvidia-related files: /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko These should have vanished when I purged nvidia-kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic and the corresponding package for 2.6.15, shouldn't they have? Can I delete them? I am desperately trying to clean everything out before I start a reinstall. The nvidia-kernel-2.6.15... package has disappeared from aptitude's list of packages, by the way, but nvidia-kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic is still in the list, marked 'p S' as purged but (I presume) from a suspicious source. There;s also a lot of nvidia stuff in /usr/src/linus-headers... /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia/i2c.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia/module.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1/drivers/video/nvidia /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1/drivers/video/nvidia/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia/i2c.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia/module.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1/drivers/video/nvidia /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1/drivers/video/nvidia/Makefile and a huge file tree under /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel Can I just delete all this /usr/src stuff? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
