>On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 20:35 +0000, matthew yee-king wrote: >> Adam Hardy wrote: >> > I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic. >> > >> > I answered several of the questions posed by the installation processses >> > of some of the packages but I must have answered one of them very >wrongly. >> > >> > Now my system-, firefox- and thunderbird text refuses to appear until I >> > drag the mouse across it. >> > >> > I am not sure how I managed to trash the system and I don't see anything >> > immediate to restore it. >> > >> > This is the same in KDE, Gnome and Enlightenment. Can someone tell me >> > where to start? >> > >> >> >> Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? If so, I had this problem >> recently I think. My solution is here: >> >> http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20061122.213602.6eeb2583.en.html >> > >It worked! I had previously installed the nVidia driver using nVidia's >installer. I used the same installer to uninstall (using the >--uninstall argument) the module. Then I used the instructions [1] >linked from the above page to compile and install it the Debian way. >Note that I had to uninstall the previous module first, or it didn't >work. > >Regards, >Casey > >[1] http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
I am following these instructions and nvidia-glx won't install because it says xserver-common which is uninstallable because it's broken. I am using xorg not xfree86. Are these installation packages made only for xfree86? Of course I uninstalled the previous nvidia driver, so now x won't run and I can't reinstall the old nvidia driver because it wants a different GCC version. I guess I should go and google up some info on nvidia for xorg - but perhaps a fellow lister knows the answer already. Thanks Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
