Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[Jamon Camisso]

JoeHill wrote:
> 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.

That the kernel loads the module is a pretty good indicator that it 
does/should ;) Typically the nvidia binary installer is good at doing 
things right with any distro I've used. I'd download that direct from 
nvidia and have a got with it.

Jamon

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