Hi, Found the problem, forgotten to install the nvidia-kernel-dkms package. Very happy all work great now and all of the CUDA stuff I installed also works!
Thanks for your comments, Jim On 12/09/11 14:05, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them > working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get > CUDA to work. > > I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove > all of the packages using apt, and them used > m-a prepare > m-a auto-install nvidia > > and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't > find the modules. > > ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a > Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko' > /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko > > lsmod shows an nvidia module > Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia > nvidia 10852808 0 > i2c_core 25424 2 i2c_i801,nvidia > > But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different > from each other. > Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40 > /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko > > Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l > /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12 2010 > /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko > > Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more > information gratefully received. > > Thanks, > James -- 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/4e6f5813.1000...@googlemail.com
