Dapper 6 - NVidia card and 686 kernel

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:46:21 -0500
"Steve Kratz" <stevek at cipafilter.com> wrote:

> uname -r shows the 686 kernel... 
> 
[snip]
> > > 
> > > The nvidia-glx-setup enable had always done all that for me 
> > in the past.
> > > It works fine with the 386 image, but not 686.
> > 
> > Which almost certainly means you don't have "linux-686" 
> > installed, which would have pulled in the 
> > linux-restricted-modules for your 686 flavour kernel.
> > 
> > ... Adam

I think Adam's point is that you are lacking the "restricted modules" -
which would be pulled in by the "linux-686" package.

The linux-image -*  and linux-686 packages are different beasts :)

For instance , from "apt-cache show linux-686" on breezy:

Source: linux-meta
Version: 2.6.12.16
Depends: linux-image-686, linux-restricted-modules-686

Peter


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