Problem installilng new nvidia drivers

[JoeHill]

Thomas Milne wrote: 

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 2009/9/28 JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>:  
> >> 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.  
> >
> > I'm at work (and thus, sadly, at a Windows box) so I can't check the
> > steps I went through for a similar upgrade at home ... but the first
> > thing that comes to mind would be to check if the sources.list file
> > has entries for "unstable".
> >  
> Here are the relevant files:
> 
> sources.list
> 
> eb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
> 
> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile testing/volatile main
> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile testing/volatile main
> 
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> 
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> 
> #unstable
> 
> deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> 
> and /etc/apt/preferences:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: 9
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 800

lol! okay, I think I see the problem...duh.

-- 
J
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists