Problem installilng new nvidia drivers

[JoeHill]

Dave Germiquet wrote: 

> 
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > On my home desktop a kernel upgrade had me without corresponding nvidia
> > drivers, so with Lennart's suggestions I was able to build a new
> > nvidia-kernel and install the newer drivers like so:
> >
> > apt-get -t unstable install nvidia-kernel-source
> > m-a clean,a-i -t nvidia
> > apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx
> >
> > Worked great.
> >
> > Now on a laptop I'm working on, same situation ie. the kernel got upgraded
> > but not nvidia, so I followed the same steps, but instead of installing the
> > newer 185.x drivers, it still went and installed 173.x, which of course
> > causes an error when X attempts to start.
> >
> > What could be causing this difference?

> Are you sure that it didn't install? I've had issues where both kernel
> drivers were installed, and when X started to load it loaded the wrong
> version.
> 
> Can you uninstall the nvidia drivers that were installed by the
> kernel? Thats what I did on my ubuntu install so it would not happen
> again.

On the last command, 'apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx', I saw it
installing the wrong version. Previous to that, I had removed them.

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