Nvidia driver version mis-match keeps X from running

[Clive Menzies]

On (02/10/06 22:16), Alex Janssen wrote:
> I now have what you have above, but I now get the message from 
> restarting gdm that it cannot find the nvidia module.  As far as I can 
> tell, it's there.  I see /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o.
> I'm not sure what I should be  looking for.  I installed nvidia-glx with 
> Synaptic.  I feel that I'm close but I'm no guru.

I was having problems on debian sid after a recent upgrade but spotted
this on debian-user:

On (26/09/06 11:46), Wackojacko wrote:
> I run nvidia graphics drivers on my AMD64 3200+, in both 64 bit and 32
> bit sid, so they definitely work.
>
> Here's what I do.
>
> ~apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source
> ~m-a prepare (sudo or root)
> ~m-a a-i nvidia (sudo or root)
> ~dpkg -i /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-moduleXXXXX.deb (sudo or root)
> ~apt-get install nvidia-glx (sudo or root)
>
> Restart X.

I had to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg because I'd been playing around
trying to fix the problem orginally but other than that, it worked for
me.

Regards

Clive

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