NVidia driver failure on new system

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
What's weird though is that previously I was running 2.6.32-5-686. So
shouldn't I now be running 2.6.39-1-686? not amd64?

The only one close to that though is 2.6.39-1-686-pae, and that doesn't boot
either. I am TOTALLY confused.


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