On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:07:56AM -0500, Seb wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:37:15 -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > > [...] > > > It compiles and works fine on my machine with those headers. > > > All you should have to do is: > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source modules-assistant > > rm -rf /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel > > m-a prepare -t > > m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel > > apt-get install nvidia-glx > > Thanks a lot Lennart, I've been doing a similar procedure (after > updating apt and removing the old nvidia stuff as you suggest): > > m-a -t -f clean,build,install nvidia > apt-get install nvidia-glx > > and the module builds, albeit with an error I described earlier about a > *stack-protector file or directory not being found. But it installs > fine. /etc/X11/xorg.conf is also set to use nvidia, as it has since > several kernels back in my sid system. However, when booting into the > new kernel, all I get is a 1 pixel band displayed along the top of the > screen. Downgrading to 169.12-1 (which means going back to the old > 2.6.24-1 Linux kernel), as Jaime suggested, is the only way to get a > working nvidia in this system.
That's just a warning from the kernel headers. No idea what that stack protector thing is about. As for the one pixel thing, I have no idea. So far I have seen issues for some 6100 users and a few 6200 users as well. Everybody else seems very happy with the new driver. One 6200 user installed the 96xx legacy driver instead which solved their problem entirely (and for a 6xxx card there really is no reason to be using the newer driver that I know of). > I use a GeForce 6100 card. The only report I could find with this 1 > pixel issue is: > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115209 > > I don't understand where the problem is, but I'll try with your exact > recipe and see what happens! I am not even sure what the problem looks like personally. I use a plain AGP GF6200 card in one machine, and so far it has been just fine. But that is on i386 not amd64. I might be able to stick the 6200 in a 64bit machine next week after I transfer a build server at work to a new machine, after which the old server can become my desktop machine (athlon 64 3500+) and would end up with the 6200 card in it driving my two monitors. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]