Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:13:58PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>>The error message I'm getting is as follows:
>>
>>
>>xauth:  creating new authority file /home/willyyam/.serverauth.22152
>>
>>X Window System Version 1.3.0
>>Release Date: 19 April 2007
>>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
>>Build Operating System: Linux Debian
>>Current Operating System: Linux $hostname 2.6.18-4-k7 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 
>>17:57:15 UTC 2007 i686
>>Build Date: 01 June 2007
>>	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>>	to make sure that you have the latest version.
>>Module Loader present
>>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>>	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>>	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>>(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jun 19 19:27:57 2007
>>(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>>(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
>>(EE) No drivers available.
>>
>>Fatal server error:
>>no screens found
>>XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>>      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>>
>>Any other help would be much appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>You mentioned you'd recompiled from nvidia's driver, where is nvidia.ko 
>located? Try insmodding that and starting X, see what error you get then.

I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting, but nvidia.ko is
located here

/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-k7/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/nvidia/nvidia.ko

and here

/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/nvidia/nvidia.ko
-- 

yours,

William

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