Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid [SOLVED]

2012-10-12 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:30:02 +0200 Mark Allums wrote: > what you are looking for is in its own package, named, oddly > enough, nvidia-xconfig. Thanks for an interesting read, almost philosophical as it were, I see this package is available for sid however although it will create a fancy lookin

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 5:14 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:00:01 +0200 Mark Allums wrote: did you run $nvidia-xconfig I tried your suggestion and got this: ~$ nvidia-xconfig bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found and this one: $ $nvidia-xconfig bash: -xconfig: command not found

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-30 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:20:02 +0200 Xelsior wrote: > Hi. See my message "What is the procedure for patching the Debian Ah disregard my previous quiry..I see your message now previously obscured. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-30 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:20:02 +0200 Xelsior wrote: > Not sure why this is but maybe the error > messages I quote can help in some way. > > Barney Holmes Thank you Barney, where are the error messages you quote, in your message with the subject: "What is the procedure for patching the Debian kern

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-30 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:00:01 +0200 Mark Allums wrote: > did you run > > $nvidia-xconfig I tried your suggestion and got this: ~$ nvidia-xconfig bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found and this one: $ $nvidia-xconfig bash: -xconfig: command not found and this: # nvidia-xconfig bash: nvidia-

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 12:13 AM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:30:01 +0200 Pascal Obry wrote: A clean-up of an old driver? I would advise to uninstall everything, exit X session and install back from a console. Pascal. Thanks for this suggestion, I did this, as you suggested, removed

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-29 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:30:01 +0200 Pascal Obry wrote: > A clean-up of an old driver? I would advise to uninstall everything, > exit X session and install back from a console. > > Pascal. Thanks for this suggestion, I did this, as you suggested, removed and purged everything nVidia then reinstal

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-29 Thread Pascal Obry
Charles, > Has anyone else done this upgrade and found it breaks an X session? Yes, I'm using it since some days now. No problem with gdm and GNOME Shell on my side, all works fine. > missing something? A clean-up of an old driver? I would advise to uninstall everything, exit X session and inst

Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-29 Thread Charles Kroeger
Has anyone else done this upgrade and found it breaks an X session? I had to install the xserver-xorg-video-vesa server to take the place of the nvidia driver. My nvidia stuff: ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.2.2 amd64 ii libgl1-nvidia-alternatives 304.48-2 amd64 ii libg