NVidia driver failure on new system

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> My 'new' system has a GForce GT520. I installed Debian Squeeze, installed
> nvidia-dkms, and upgraded to unstable. As soon as I enable the nvidia
> driver, though, the system become totally unresponsive. All I get is a
> rapidly flashing cursor and a flashing numlock. If I reboot I can get into
> recovery mode and switch back to the generic driver, but that only gives me
> 800x600.
>
> I found this in xsession-errors:
>
> /etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst
> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst
> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-pmldst/ssh
> librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
> librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
> librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
> Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
> /home/joehill/.config/metacity/sessions/
> 107e382d5a521abc3113070141156434900000021170023.ms: Failed t$
> ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
> Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
>
> (gnome-power-manager:2179): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
> assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension
> ** Message: Got disconnected from the session message bus; retrying to
> reconnect every 10 seconds
> gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> on X server :0.
> ** Message: <info>  disconnected by the session bus.
>
> polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
> temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
> kerneloops-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on
> X server :0.
> update-notifier: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X
> server :0.
> gdu-notification-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable) on X server :0.
> gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on
> X server :0.
> nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server
> :0.
> system-config-printer-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable) on X server :0.
> The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
>
> but it looks like all that is just to do with missing panel and applets and
> so on.
>
> Where else can I look for clues?
>
>
Xorg.log shows:


(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

So it's the same old problem...

This is what I have installed:

joehill at rebelone:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
libgl1-nvidia-alternatives install
libgl1-nvidia-glx install
libglx-nvidia-alternatives install
nvidia-glx install
nvidia-installer-cleanup install
nvidia-kernel-common install
nvidia-kernel-dkms install
nvidia-settings install
nvidia-support install
nvidia-vdpau-driver install
nvidia-xconfig install

Then I realized I did not have nvidia-kernel-source, so I installed that.
Now...do I need to manually build the module now? Dammit, why can I never
get this process right?

-- 
Thomas Milne
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