Debian nvidia video problem

[Jamon Camisso]

On 02/11/2010 10:57 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:35:33AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
>> I'm running a Debian testing system on my main desktop.  Up until a
>> couple days ago it was running three monitors on two video cards (one
>> PCI-E and one PCI, both Nvidia 6200) on kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64 with the
>> nvidia drivers.  I have the latest nvidia-glx, module-assistant,
>> nvidia-kernel-common, and the headers for all installed kernels.
>> After an upgrade to kernel 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 I ran "m-a clean, a-i -t
>> nvidia -l 2.6.32-trunk-amd64" as I had with the previous kernel.  It
>> built without any obvious errors, but an attempt to run X gives this:
>>
>> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol:
>> resVgaShared
>> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
>> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
>> (EE) No drivers available.
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> no screens found
>>
>> All attempts to build the module for other kernels have given the same
>> results: even reverting to the 2.6.30-1 kernel, and despite the fact
>> that "m-a ..." seems to simply unpack the previously built module,
>> which should be identical and should work?
>>
>> Am I missing a step?  Or has something else recently upgraded in
>> Debian messed up my system?  Google hasn't helped much: references to
>> the errors I'm seeing are for Fedora or Arch three years ago.
>> Attempts to revert to the "nv" driver (even using only a single
>> screen) get me bizarre colour bars on the screen, so I'm currently
>> working on a laptop.
>
> What does this give:
>
> dpkg -l |grep nvidia
>
> I suspect you updated the nvidia-kernel-source, compiled the module and
> installed it, but did not then finish the upgrade to get a new matching
> nvidia-glx.
>
> Of course since testing doesn't yet have ndidia packages in it, you will
> have to get those from unstable.

I've pretty much just stuck with the nvidia.com binary package and use 
it as the installer. So far so good, I've had more grub2 breakage with 
Squeeze than I have had Nvidia problems.

Jamon
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