Debian nvidia video problem

[John McGregor]

Giles Orr wrote:
> 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.
>   
You might consider using the smxi script to upgrade your kernel and 
install the latest nVidia drivers. You can find information about smxi here:
http://smxi.org/site/about.htm#sgfxi

HTH

John
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