In my case, possibly my upgrades from experimental. I think I have seen a couple of other threads where pulling previous updates from experimental has lead to problems once the freeze ended.
I'm going to downgrade to the nvidia drivers in sid and try 3.8 again. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Mark Allums <m...@allums.com> wrote: > On a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, I installed a clean Wheezy release, > installed nvidia drivers along with the dkms packages that go with. Because > of network driver trouble, I took the kernel from sid. > After that, everything works fine. I mean, video is fine. Networking > still a problem. Here is my version information: > > $ dpkg -l | grep nvidia > ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.2.2 > amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider > ii libgl1-nvidia-alternatives 304.88-1 > amd64 transition libGL.so* diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia > ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 304.88-1 > amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries > ii libglx-nvidia-alternatives 304.88-1 > amd64 transition libgl.so diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia > ii libxvmcnvidia1:amd64 304.88-1 > amd64 NVIDIA binary XvMC library > ii nvidia-alternative 304.88-1 > amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider > ii nvidia-glx 304.88-1 > amd64 NVIDIA metapackage > ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20120630+3 > amd64 Cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer > ii nvidia-kernel-common 20120630+3 > amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files > ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 304.88-1 > amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source > ii nvidia-settings 304.88-1 > amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver > ii nvidia-support 20120630+3 > amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files > ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 304.88-1 > amd64 NVIDIA vdpau driver > ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 304.88-1 > amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver > > linux-image-3.8-1-amd64 3.8.12-1 > amd64 Linux 3.8 for 64-bit PCs > ii linux-image-amd64 3.8+47 > amd64 Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) > > > Thanks. That's good to know. Only some folks are affected. I wonder why? > > > > > >
