Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[JoeHill]

Jamon Camisso left a post-it on the fridge:

> 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.

That's what I'm running now, though to this day the colour/texture depth
absolutely *sucks* in any of my games...the eternal mystery.

How did you guess that the 9631 drivers were not from nvidia.com? ;-)

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