Hi Florian: In addition to info (previous mail) collected as you suggested:
Sending from my provider (previous attempt apparently failed) while receiving at my usual address. Writing from knoppix pivot-root install of debian because my X system suddenly broken (mismatch of nvis kernel module (1.0.8756) and X module version (1.0.7174) following apt-get upgrade. I also lost address debian users. I took the opportunity to upgrade from 2.6.15 without success (main contrib non-free present in sources.list debian). 1) nvidia-installer --uninstall 2)apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 installing 2.6.17-2-k7 3)reboot 4)m-a -i -prepare installing headers and kbuild 5)m-a a-i nvidia apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r) nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common shows n-vidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-k7 (1.0.8762-2+2.6.17-9) nvidia-kernel-common (20051028+1 0) nvidia-glx not installed and no candidate (I was unable to install it) Because on running #X mismatch between nVidia module and X version was still the case, I did the following: 1) Added "unstable" to sources.list 2) # apt-get update 3) # m-a a-i nvidia which reports that "installation of the nvidia-kernel source failed; maybe you have to add contrib non-free." Actually contrib non-free were there. I thought that previous installation with "m-a a-i nvidia" should be first removed before rebuilding the module with this command. However, #apt-get --purge remove nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-k7 does not remove. #apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r) nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common reports the same status below for all three packages, except fo the presence ofr "unstable" candidate1.0.8776-2 for nvidia-glx in addition to 1.0.8756-4 0. Hope you understand the origin of this mess. Thanks francesco
