Kernel upgraded but not Nvidia

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 3 21:16:10 UTC 2009


Lennart Sorensen wrote: 

> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:39:20PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> Ehm, perhaps I should have suggested:
> 
> m-a clean,a-i -t nvidia
> 
> Also which version of nvidia-kernel-source do you currently have
> installed?
> 
> dpkg -l nvidia-kernel-source

nvidia-kernel- 173.14.09-5

> I wonder if the version is a bit too old for the 2.6.30 kernel.
> 185.18.x should probably work, although we have been fixing things and
> not everything is in yet, although at this point at least in debian
> unstable I would expect 2.6.30 to work.  The 173.x version in testing
> is way out of date and won't work.

That must be the problem then. Should I wait until the newer nvidia kernel
source is available? I am running Testing, but I have unstable sources in my
list (apt pinning). Is there some way to rerun the m-a build so that it pulls
in a newer source?

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