NVidia driver failure on new system

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:11:55PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> Unfortunately, 2.6.39-1 boots to a total failure, 'stack trace' or
> something. damn.

Then grab the headers from stable for 2.6.32.

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Len Sorensen
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