On 2011-08-31 11:11, Thomas Thorne wrote: > Well I feel slightly foolish but plenty of searching has not provided > an asnwer I am confident in yet. What is the cleanest way for me to > update my nvidia driver to the one in testing? At present the most > clear instructions I can find are at > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but that does not work > for me (my system sticks with 195.36.31). I could try and build the > drivers from source but that feels like the wrong way to do things. > I did try forcing nvidia-kernel-dkms to 280.13-2 as that seemed like > it should do what I wanted but the nvidia setting manager still > reports me using the older version.
For a squeeze amd64 system it should work to install the nvidia-glx package (and all its dependencies) from testing without needing to upgrade anything else to testing. > I also tried http://wiki.debian.org/ModuleAssistant but that said I have the > latest version too... which I do but I want the unstable version and I cannot > force it. "Apt-get -t unstable" also said that I was already up to date for > which ever nvidia package I pointed it at. Did you reboot after updating the driver? Or manually stop Xorg, unload the old nvidia kernel module and restart X? There should have been a debconf notice explaining this. If you use reportbug to do a followup on this bug report (from the problematic machine of course), we will get a list of packages installed currently, modules loaded, logfiles etc. that may help to further disgnose your problem. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
