NVidia driver failure on new system

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:44:08PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>  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?

Yes.  unstable should be running 2.6.39-1.  2.6.32-5 is not the right
kernel.

linux-image-2.6-amd64 should depend on the current one for you.
Upgrade and reboot.

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Len Sorensen
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