Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:58:37PM -0400, Michael Galea wrote:
>>>>On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:49:51PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman 
>>>>wrote:
>>>>>ii  nvidia-glx                       1.0.8776-4                      
>>>>>NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
>>>>>ii  nvidia-glx-dev                   1.0.8776-4                      
>>>>>NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x / Xorg driver deve
>>>>>ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-k7        1.0.8776-4+2.6.18.dfsg.1-12     
>>>>>NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18
>>>>Current 2.6.18 kernel is 2.6.18-5 not -4, so you may have to rerun the
>>>>nvidia module building by doing: m-a a-i -t prepare; m-a a-i -t nvidia
>>
>>I did this, but it doesn't do anything, because the kernel I have claims
>>to be up to date, and I re-ran the nvidia module already.
>>
>>>Oh and it you updated to 2.6.21, well don't do that.  2.6.21 has a bug
>>>that makes it incompatible with the nvidia drivers.  2.6.22 when
>>>released will fix that bug.  I am still on 2.6.18-5 on my
>>>testing/unstable machines because of this.
>>
>>I'm glad to hear that my problem is explicable, but I'm not sure what
>>exactly to do about it.  Can you give me a pointer?  Thanks.
>
>Hi William,
>	Not sure this is your problem, but I fixed my broken nvidia on 
>	2.6.18-4 with
>"cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers; gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so 
>nvidia_drv.o"

That worked!  Thank you!  The question now is, what did I do?  What does 
"gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so nvidia_drv.o" do, exactly?  Thanks.
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yours,

William

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