Extremely urgent request for testing (new Nvidia binary drivers)

[Adam Membrey]

Paul Roeland wrote:
> Adam Membrey wrote:
> 
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>>
>> Any idea why I'm getting my error message then?
>>
>> I am currently running an amd64, with the AMD64-k8 kernel (2.6.10-5)
>>
>> hmmm, it has me baffled
>>
>> You just added the line to your sources.list, did an update and then 
>> did a sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx?
>>
> 
> yes, but you need to rmmod the kernel driver and modprobe it in again. 
> Or, if that fails because it claims it's in use, a reboot should solve 
> your problems.
> 
> 

Thanks Paul, it wasn't actually downloading nvidia-glx, that was the 
problem.

So I just did a:

sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-amd64-k8

then did a sudo modprobe -r nvidia && sudo modprobe nvidia

all working lovely now :)