Kernel upgraded but not Nvidia

[JoeHill]

Tyler Aviss wrote: 

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:10 PM, JoeHill<joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > In a recent update the kernel was upgraded to 2.6.30, but when I rebooted
> > there was no corresponding nvidia module, so for now I've been using 2.6.26.
> >
> > I thought there might be a more recent nvidia module in unstable, so I tried
> > that but I get:
> >
> > node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Reading extended state information
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Writing extended state information... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done
> > The following packages are BROKEN:
> >  nvidia-glx
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >  gnome-vfs-obexftp{u} libevolution5.0-cil{u} libhesiod0{u} libkadm5srv5{u}
> >  libopal3.6.1{u} libpam-cracklib{u} libpt2.6.1{u} libusb-1.0-0{u}
> >  libzephyr3{u} nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686{u}
> >  nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem{u} padevchooser{u} paman{u} paprefs{u}
> >  pavumeter{u} pulseaudio-module-gconf{u} pulseaudio-module-zeroconf{u}
> >  toolame{u}
> > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 18 to remove and 426 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 7129kB of archives. After unpacking 33.2MB will be freed.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-185.18.31 which is a virtual package.
> > The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> >
> > Remove the following packages:
> > nvidia-glx
> >
> > Score is -9881
> >
> > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
> >
> > Does this mean that nvidia-glx will be upgraded? It seems to be saying it
> > will be removed...
> >
> 
> 
> Yes, it looks like it's removing nvidia-glx due to conflicts with
> other packages on your system (maybe the newer kernel).
> 
> AFAIK, "nv" is the open-source module and "nvidia" is the proprietary
> implementation (and last time I checked "nv" didn't support most
> 3d/acceleration features). If the driver from your distro doesn't
> work, try downloading one straight from nvidia:
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
> 
> 
> You'll need to turn off X to install, and run the downloaded (.run)
> file from the CLI, but it may be a newer version that the conflicted
> one in the distro.

That's the way I was doing it before, but of course every time I update the
kernel...

I was hoping to keep doing it the 'Debian Way', if possible. I think in this
case the driver is probably installable with apt, I just don't have enough
experience with it to understand what it's telling me to do :-\

-- 
J
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