On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 22:33:16 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > On 2/9/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:14:55 -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
[...] > >> My main question are these; > >> > >> Is there a way I can keep the nvidia driver installed so I don't have to > >> reinstall it every reboot? > > > >With the Debian packages there should be no need to reinstall the nvidia > >driver on every boot. You probably have some configuration problem or > >maybe you used the nvidia installer script earlier and did not remove > >its traces completely. For a start, please post the output of the > >following 6 commands: [ snip: nvidia kernel and glx packages installed; the important files are present ] > find /etc/rc?.d/ -type l -name \*nvidia\* > > (I think I see the problem here) > > /etc/rc0.d/K20nvidia-kernel > /etc/rc0.d/K20nvidia-glx > /etc/rc0.d/K20nvidia-glx-legacy [ snip: the same for the other runlevels ] > find /etc/init.d/ -type f -name \*nvidia\* > > /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx-legacy > /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx > /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel I think this is the problem: You had the nvidia-glx-legacy package (for older cards) installed at some point. Then you removed it (or it was removed automatically when you installed the nvidia-glx package) but its startup script is still present. This seems to interfere with the startup script of nvidia-glx. (These startup-scripts allow you to use the nvidia driver with more than one kernel version; this is a Debian-specific feature.) This should be easily fixable by purging the nvidia-glx-legacy package. Purging a package - as opposed to removing it - will also delete its configuration files. (The startup script is considered a configuration file because the user might want to customize it.) You can run (as root) dpkg -P nvidia-glx-legacy Then you can check with "dpkg -l nvidia-glx-legacy" if the status of the package is listed as "pn". Your system should be fine after that. (You might have to reinstall nvidia-glx once more.) (The output of the last command was OK, too: Your xorg nvidia module is where it should be.) -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]