On Sat December 1 2007, David Fox wrote: > Yeah, every time you update the kernel you have to redo the nvidia > driver for that kernel, it's a hassle, but not too terribly difficult > (I finally got it working with the nvidia in the 'sid' repository) but > I am still using the same kernel (2.6.22-2) that I was using before - > but I do dist-upgrades once a week or so. It should be that > dist-upgrade doesn't automatically upgrade the kernel, but that > depends on whether you install the numbered version explicitly vs. the > 'generic' 2.6 package (linux-image-k7 or whatever), AIUI.
it wasn't that it just did a kernel update, it was also broken on my box before that. or maybe it was the kernel update ( again...) > > > running Debian testing. > > NOW my NVIDIA driver is working again, and so is mplayer. > > so it looks like the fact that the nvidia driver wasn't working also > > Yeah, it's good to have the nvidia driver, but things should still > work even with the 'nv' driver. Other than being slower, I hadn't had > problems running vlc or mplayer. Sometimes -vo options help, such as > -vo X11 or other choices. One thing I never got to work right was the > -vo mga/xmga output driver when I had a Matrox G450 card (I gave it > away). That seems to have worked with Mandrake but I never got the mga > driver to work with Debian's mplayer. yeah, I know I can change it to nv every time, but it IS much slower!!! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]