Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-27 Thread Jo Shields
sigi wrote: Building the nvidia-kernel went fine. But I can't build nvidia-glx. If I try the dpkg-buildpackage it That's not possible. the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel packages MUST have matched versions - and the only way to build an nvidia-kernel-source package is from the

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-26 Thread Jo Shields
sigi wrote: Hi, And now I made it, to install a 2.6.16-kernel on sarge and nothing bad happened this time... graphics and sound are runnning now. Can you post your sources.list? Did you have to rebuild your nvidia driver again or does Xorg use the nv driver? I actually use

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-26 Thread sigi
nv_drv.so is the unaccelerated XFree/Xorg driver for nVidia cards. nvidia_drv.so is the closed-source nVidia 3D driver, which requires nvidia.ko to operate. Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see whether you're using nv or nvidia; use glxinfo | grep direct to see whether you have any 3D

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-26 Thread Jo Shields
sigi wrote: nv_drv.so is the unaccelerated XFree/Xorg driver for nVidia cards. nvidia_drv.so is the closed-source nVidia 3D driver, which requires nvidia.ko to operate. Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see whether you're using nv or nvidia; use glxinfo | grep direct to see whether you have

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-26 Thread sigi
Building the nvidia-kernel went fine. But I can't build nvidia-glx. If I try the dpkg-buildpackage it That's not possible. the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel packages MUST have matched versions - and the only way to build an nvidia-kernel-source package is from the

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-25 Thread sigi
Hi, Is there something wrong here, or should I risk this upgrade? Nothing realy wrong here. Just uninstallable and missing packages. The unofficial etch was never truely functional. It just got worse lately and with the official archive shaping up we are basicaly past caring. If you

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-25 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:40:03AM +0200 sigi said: And now I made it, to install a 2.6.16-kernel on sarge and nothing bad happened this time... graphics and sound are runnning now. Can you post your sources.list? Did you have to rebuild your

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-25 Thread sigi
Hi, And now I made it, to install a 2.6.16-kernel on sarge and nothing bad happened this time... graphics and sound are runnning now. Can you post your sources.list? Did you have to rebuild your nvidia driver again or does Xorg use the nv driver? I actually use the nvidia-driver. I had

dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-23 Thread sigi
Hi, some days ago I had to reinstall my system, and I chose debian sarge to install on it. Now, I liked to have more recent packages on my machine, like I had before. I tried a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' but this wants me to uninstall nearly my whole gnome and kde stuff... totally over 300

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-23 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:57:44AM +0200 sigi said: Hi, some days ago I had to reinstall my system, and I chose debian sarge to install on it. Now, I liked to have more recent packages on my machine, like I had before. I tried a 'apt-get

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-23 Thread sigi
I did this once about a month back and broke my entire system. I was merely looking for a kernel upgrade to get my nForce-based sound card working. Things may have changed since then. I didn't mind losing the gnome and kde stuff but I also lost my X setup. Hmm, this sounds really bad!

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

2006-04-23 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:29:59AM +0200, sigi wrote: I did this once about a month back and broke my entire system. I was merely looking for a kernel upgrade to get my nForce-based sound card working. Things may have changed since then. I didn't mind losing the gnome and kde stuff