NVidia driver failure on new system

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I would have done that, but I can't see them at all in Synaptic. I'm looking
for a way to do that with apt-get, but...

-- 
Thomas Milne
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