NVidia driver failure on new system

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:22:59PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> > 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?
>
> nvidia-kernel-dkms is better.  It does it automatically.  You do have
> to be sure to have the linux-headers matching your kernel installed.
> Installing linux-headers-2.6-CPUTYPE takes care of that on upgrades.
>
> Well, this is where I'm going wrong I guess:

 joehill at rebelone:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-headers
ii  linux-headers-2.6-amd64                       2.6.39+35
        Header files for Linux 2.6-amd64 (meta-package)
ii  linux-headers-2.6.39-1-amd64                  2.6.39-1
       Header files for Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64
ii  linux-headers-2.6.39-1-common                 2.6.39-1
       Common header files for Linux 2.6.39-1

but

joehill at rebelone:~$ uname -r
2.6.32-5-686

So...I either need linux-headers 2.6.32-5 or kernel 2.6.39-1 right?

-- 
Thomas Milne
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