Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[JoeHill]

William O'Higgins Witteman left a post-it on the fridge:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:18:33PM -0400, JoeHill 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.  
> >
> >What does dmesg have to say about nvidia?
> >
> >dmesg | egrep -i nvidia
> >
> >If nothing, maybe just try loading the module manually.  
> 
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8776  Mon Oct 16
> 21:56:04 PDT 2006
> 
> So, it does seem to be running that module (lsmod confirms)

Wait, ver. 8776? Will that work with recent kernel/xorg versions? If you have a
legacy card, I think the version you want is 7184, but I could be wrong about
that. What I do know is when I upgraded to kernel 2.6.17-13 (I know, I know) I
also had to upgrade my nvidia drivers, the old ones (9631) would not work.

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