Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:17:16PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:16:09PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen 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.
-- 

yours,

William

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