Kernel upgraded but not Nvidia

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 3 20:39:20 UTC 2009


Lennart Sorensen wrote: 

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:10:12PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> > 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...  
> 
> Right.  The nvidia kernel modules are not automatically built (yet).
> You have to build it yourself before upgrading nvidia-glx.
> 
> You can simply do:
> 
> m-a a-i -t nvidia
> 
> or if you are not running the new kernel yet:
> 
> m-a a-i -t nvidia -l 2.6.30-1-686 (or whatever your kernel is)

I booted into the new kernel and gave the first one a try, but got BUILD
FAILED. I've attached the log, I don't know if you can discern what it means.

Thanks!

-- 
J
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