Nvidia's proprietary driver for some reason just doesn't want to play nice.
I managed to get it installed -- with the advice given :-) in response to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg03819.html -- but it only works sort of. I get the nvidia splash screen and the display seems to be fine... KDE loads as I think it should. However, a whole bunch of applications don't work. The TV Tuner is busted. I get a blue screen when I run 'xawtv' -- which according to this --> http://www.charmed.com/support9.htm <-- it means the driver is loaded (and the tuner card was detected). Then, when running Mozilla I managed to get the error message: "libmikmod.so.2 is not a registered protocol" I then noticed XMMS doesn't work. When I try to start it at the command line I get this: ----- $ xmms libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/generic/dl-tls.c: 72: _dl_next_tls_modid: Assertion `result <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_max_dtv_idx' failed! ----- After some more searching I found this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/11/msg00444.html It says: "...this bug is almost certainly related to the nvidia-glx drivers..." I didn't find anything that jumped out at me in '/var/log/XFree86.0.log' This post suggests it is related to 'libGLcore.so': http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/11/msg00448.html ----- The above seems to suggest problems with the glx drivers. Has any one encountered a problem like this before? Does it matter that I'm running the '2.6.6-1-386' kernel (on an Athlon 2200 XP processor)? Could this be a bug in the proprietary driver? PACKAGES INSTALLED --- SNIPPAGE OF DESCRIPTION ======================================== $ COLUMNS=132 dpkg --list |grep kernel ii adjtimex 1.16-1 ii initrd-tools 0.1.70 ii iproute 20010824-13.1 ii iptables 1.2.9-9 ii kcmlinuz 3.2.2-1 ii kernel-headers-2.6.6-1 2.6.6-1 ii kernel-headers-2.6.6-1-386 2.6.6-1 ii kernel-image-2.6.6-1-386 2.6.6-1 ii kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 2.6.6-1 ii kernel-package 8.090 ii libdirectfb-0.9-20 0.9.20-1 ii module-init-tools 3.0-pre10-4 ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.6-1-386 1.0.5336-6 ii nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.5336-1 ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.5336-6 ii pciutils 2.1.11-11 $ COLUMNS=132 dpkg --list |grep nvidia ii nvidia-glx 1.0.5336-6 ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.6-1-386 1.0.5336-6 ii nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.5336-1 ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.5336-6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Hardware/Software ======================================== Athlon 2200 XP ASUS A7N8X (Motherboard) ASUS V8420 - NVIDIA GeForce 4 Viewsonic PF790 512 MB RAM Debian Sarge 2.6.6-1-386 Kernel KDE 3.2.2 -- +++ Jetzt WLAN-Router f�r alle DSL-Einsteiger und Wechsler +++ GMX DSL-Powertarife zudem 3 Monate gratis* http://www.gmx.net/dsl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
