NVidia driver failure on new system

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:42:59AM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> > > 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...
>
> In /etc/apt/sources.list make sure you have both a deb ... line with
> unstable/testing/wheezy or whatever you use and another line with stable.
>
> ie:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
>
> Then apt-get update, and apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64
> (or whatever your kernel is).
>
> I can't stand synaptic.  aptitude is OK, but apt-get command line works.



 Setting up linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common (2.6.32-31) ...
Setting up linux-kbuild-2.6.32 (2.6.32-1) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686 (2.6.32-31) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 2.6.32-5-686
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 2.6.32-5-686:

but then this happened:

(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  270.41.19  Mon May 16 23:49:08 PDT 2011
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(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.

I looked in syslog as it suggested, but that is a huge file, and I could not
see anything that stood out, ie. 'nvidia'.

-- 
Thomas Milne
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