On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Chris Brennan <xa...@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > * Hans Vogelsberger <li....@schwaz.net> [2011-07-02 18:44:43 +0200]: > >> Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X >> which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old >> computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since >> I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. >> >> Nouveau did not work after I bought my Fujitsu in January. Installing >> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg, >> libdrm-nouveau1a, and libdrm-nouveau1a-dbg and changing the Driver line >> in Section "Device" of /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Vim from "NVIDIA" to >> "nouveau" and after another reboot to "NOUVEAU" did not work either. The >> Identifier line was "NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE" and thus correct, the other >> sections in xorg.conf were not printed but configured elsewhere, and xdm >> and xfce4 had worked well all the time. >> >> I rechanged the Driver line with Vim again back to "NVIDIA", rebootet >> and dpkg-reconfigured whatever seemed necessary, And rebootet again. >> Near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following lines showed up: >> (II) Loading extension DRI2 >> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" >> (WW) Warning: couldn't open module "nvidia" >> (II) Unloading module "nvidia" >> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" >> These seem to be the important lines and are the same in Xorg.0.log and >> in Xorg.0.log.old. The logs with "nouveau" are lost. I rebootet to often >> and there is only one Xorg.0.log.old file. As far as I remember those >> lines did not look notably different from the "nvidia" ones. >> >> Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? >> In this case I hope it is enough to repartition / and /boot partitions >> and leave the other ones as they are. >> >> Yours >> Hans Vogelsberger >> > > Hans, > Try reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kernel likely changed during > your upgrade and the driver needs to have his kernel module recompiled > against the new kernel version. Try that and report back.
That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajvvksm9mzd3lzyijeyspsfdnvuf7akqnqvwtwcfb0yfe...@mail.gmail.com
