On Tuesday 27 August 2013 22:51:46 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 27.08.2013 10:04, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Monday 26 August 2013 23:24:45 Greg Madden wrote: > >> > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > >> > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so > >> > (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" > >> > compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 > >> > Module class: X.Org Video Driver > >> > (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module > >> > [snip] can't quite make it out accurately enough to copy. Short > >> > message saying to look at the system's kernel log if you want to > >> > >> see > >> > >> > more messages. (EE) NVIDIA (tangled up with above) > >> > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" > >> > (II) Unloading nvidia > >> > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia"(module-specific error, 0) > >> > (EE) No drivers available. > >> > Fatal server error: > >> > no screens found > >> > > >> > I have downloaded the correct driver for my husband's card (GTX > >> > >> 650 > >> > >> > TI) > > > > [snip] > > > >> > But I would presumably need to unistall > >> > whatever is there now first. > > > > [snip] > > > >> > Ideas and suggestions please! I don't want to reinstall and put > >> > >> up > >> > >> > with nouveau if I can avoid it. :-( > >> > >> The proprietary Nvidia installer does a good job of configuring > >> everything here, just works. It will write a new .xorg file and > >> backup > >> the old file, if present. > >> > >> Caveats, no Debian Nvidia stuff installed, > > > > So how do I get rid of what I have just installed? > > > >> blacklist the nouveau > > > > That seems to have been done successfully. > > > >> driver, which Nvidia installer offers to do, that is not a > >> reference > >> to a Linux kernel version. > > > > Thank you for your reply. > > Lisi > > NVVidia's .run have an uninstall command ( > "#./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run --uninstall" ). > If this does not work, a problem I had recently because I messed my > system in a way or another, then it seem removing files by hand works > (it worked here, but it was obviously painful as I had to care a big > care of not removing files which were not from nvidia... note that I > previously removed stuff I had installed through aptitude to reduce > risks of messing more my system.). To know which files to remove, use > the --extract-only option, go into the directory it creates, and ls. > > I hope it's not too late.
No. I have been out today. Thank you very much. Anyone else: I'm going to bed now, so further help still useful! Shall work on it tomorrow, and if I fail wipe and reinstall on Thursday. (I'm downloading the torrent of Wheezy netinstall as I type.) Lisi -- 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/201308272322.25825.lisi.re...@gmail.com
