Debian nvidia video problem

[Giles Orr]

Can we focus on me here?  :-)

But seriously, if this thread continues to be about GRUB2 (and I don't
help any below) perhaps we should spawn a different subject line.

On 11 February 2010 12:52, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:03:19PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> Well if I can't trust a grub2 update to not hose things, I don't really
>> trust a kernel update either, as borne out (unfortunately) by Giles'
>> experience. Perhaps I'm long overdue for an nvidia catastrophe, but
>> that's what backups are for ;)
>
> Grub2 has been a disaster lately for some systems (certainly a number
> of mine).  I have mine frozen at 20100115 to avoid the 20100128 breakage.

I'm fascinated by the GRUB2 thing: In ten years of using "testing," I
don't think I've ever seen such a run of problems.  It's always been
very stable up until about three months ago, when it suddenly started
acting the way I would have expected "unstable" to act.  Almost
entirely because of GRUB2 - the problem being that a bootloader issue
has the potential to spectacularly bork a system, and it's done so
repeatedly.  I'm getting better at chrooting and re-installing GRUB
...  Not a skill I had really wanted to improve.

As for my video problem, I'll reply back this evening when I get home
and can test.  As usual, I think Lennart is right: I may have to pull
some nvidia stuff down from unstable.  Thanks.

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