Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
Confirming this error. I recently tried to install NVIDIA drivers for my 9500 GT graphic card, but it didn't work. After digging up a bit, I believe the error's coming from a libgl1-mesa-glx update. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1309635862.12550.1.camel@Max-deb1.Belkin
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
Forwarded Message From: Max jonhan...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA - URGENT Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:44:22 +0200 Confirming this error. I recently tried to install NVIDIA drivers for my 9500 GT graphic card, but it didn't work. After digging up a bit, I believe the error's coming from a libgl1-mesa-glx update. When I said that I pinned X I wasn't very precise. A short while ago I need to re-pin packages, currently the locked packages are: libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev all packages are version 7.10.2-3 I did install Debian stable, but after installing I upgraded to testing, excepted of all or most X packages, I kept those packages at stable, resp. some were upgraded. The mesa packages seems to be from testing, but they aren't available anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1310158936.12968.202.camel@debian
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 23:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:44:22 +0200
Confirming this error. I recently tried to install NVIDIA drivers for my
9500 GT graphic card, but it didn't work. After digging up a bit, I
believe the error's coming from a libgl1-mesa-glx update.
When I said that I pinned X I wasn't very precise. A short while ago I
need to re-pin packages, currently the locked packages are:
libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx
libglu1-mesa
libglu1-mesa-dev
mesa-common-dev
all packages are version 7.10.2-3
I did install Debian stable, but after installing I upgraded to testing,
excepted of all or most X packages, I kept those packages at stable,
resp. some were upgraded.
The mesa packages seems to be from testing, but they aren't available
anymore.
FWIW I only try to keep xserver-xorg-video-nv for self build kernel-rt
and the proprietary nvidia what version ever is available (currently
173x) for self build kernel ex 2.6.39 with 'rt patch emulation'.
Last time when there were X upgrades the above mesa packages tried to
remove the nv and the proprietary 173x driver. I could unlock some x
packages, but had to lock this and no other mesa packages.
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Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On 2011-07-04 00:58 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0200 Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net wrote: instead of moving /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section device to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not even startx was necessary. I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doesn't like noveau driver: [ 1528.909] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.916] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 [ 1528.916] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.924] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [...] [ 1529.044] (EE) [drm] failed to open device [ 1529.044] (EE) No devices detected. It should work, though, GT200 series should be supported by nouveau. Looks like Kernel Modesetting is disabled, either through a boot parameter or via a file in /etc/modprobe.d. Try reloading the nouveau kernel module: rmmod nouveau nouveau modprobe modeset=1 and restart X. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aacubina@turtle.gmx.de
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:38:01 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doesn't like noveau driver: [ 1528.909] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.916] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 [ 1528.916] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.924] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [...] [ 1529.044] (EE) [drm] failed to open device [ 1529.044] (EE) No devices detected. It should work, though, GT200 series should be supported by nouveau. Looks like Kernel Modesetting is disabled, either through a boot parameter or via a file in /etc/modprobe.d. Try reloading the nouveau kernel module: rmmod nouveau nouveau modprobe modeset=1 and restart X. Thanks for the tip, but I already installed nvidia-glx from sid, and am now happily using it. I wrote this little gem of knowledge down for the future, though. :) -- Andrej Kacian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110704190640.26d273fd@penny
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
Hi there. What about a solution 4 you all? We just need to restore our last versions of: xserver-common xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri mesa-common-dev go to /var/cache/apt/archives then sudo dpkg -i the following files: xserver-common_2%3a1.10.2-1+wheezy1_all.deb xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.10.2-1+wheezy1_i386.deb libglu1-mesa_7.10.2-3_i386.deb libgl1-mesa-glx_7.10.2-3_i386.deb libgl1-mesa-dri_7.10.2-3_i386.deb libgl1-mesa-dev_7.10.2-3_i386.deb mesa-common-dev_7.10.2-3_i386.deb Using a 64bit sys? Ok, just change the i386. Ok, you were dumb and cleaned your system after the update(So do I)? pkgs.org/package/ can solve it ;) We're about to get our X working again. Just sudo apt-get install : libgl1-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-alternatives nvidia-glx X working again!
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net wrote: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. I had the same issue I've solved doing a upgrade to sid. I recommend you to install Debian stable though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/campsvvx9bks7mo0r7mgv0awwj_1fwwtiiomkkbwpf1kouxs...@mail.gmail.com
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
I know this is playing with fire but I did this: sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 This points the multiarch version to where the /usr/lib version points. Save the original symlink to libGL.so.1.2 to be safe but easy enough to restore is need be. You might also manually point the nvidia/diversion to that one. Anyway, I had X and NVidia driver working fine but openGL apps crashed out. After this symlink, flightgear started fine so it fixed my problem in any event. Nouveau might not find libGL at all right now. However, when I restart the computer, this change seems to get undone! I am not upgrading any mesa, glu, nvidia, any of it! I even have a pkg-divert on this. Still gets undone.
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0200 Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net wrote: instead of moving /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section device to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not even startx was necessary. I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doesn't like noveau driver: [ 1528.909] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.916] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 [ 1528.916] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.924] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.924] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 [ 1528.929] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.929] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2 [ 1528.932] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.932] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3 [ 1528.936] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.936] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4 [ 1528.940] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.940] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5 [ 1528.944] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.944] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6 [ 1528.947] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.947] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7 [ 1528.951] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.951] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8 [ 1528.955] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.955] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9 [ 1528.959] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.959] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10 [ 1528.962] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.962] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11 [ 1528.966] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.966] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12 [ 1528.970] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.970] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13 [ 1528.973] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.973] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14 [ 1528.977] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.977] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15 [ 1528.981] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 [ 1528.981] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.986] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 1528.989] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 [ 1528.993] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2 [ 1528.997] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3 [ 1529.001] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4 [ 1529.004] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5 [ 1529.008] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6 [ 1529.012] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7 [ 1529.015] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8 [ 1529.019] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9 [ 1529.023] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10 [ 1529.026] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11 [ 1529.030] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12 [ 1529.033] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13 [ 1529.037] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14 [ 1529.041] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15 [ 1529.044] (EE) [drm] failed to open device [ 1529.044] (EE) No devices detected. It should work, though, GT200 series should be supported by nouveau. root@penny:/etc/X11# lspci | grep -i nv 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] (rev a1) Any ideas? Thanks in advance, -- Andrej Kacian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110704005812.257a7a43@penny
NVIDIA - URGENT
Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. Nouveau did not work after I bought my Fujitsu in January. Installing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg, libdrm-nouveau1a, and libdrm-nouveau1a-dbg and changing the Driver line in Section Device of /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Vim from NVIDIA to nouveau and after another reboot to NOUVEAU did not work either. The Identifier line was NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and thus correct, the other sections in xorg.conf were not printed but configured elsewhere, and xdm and xfce4 had worked well all the time. I rechanged the Driver line with Vim again back to NVIDIA, rebootet and dpkg-reconfigured whatever seemed necessary, And rebootet again. Near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following lines showed up: (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) LoadModule: nvidia (WW) Warning: couldn't open module nvidia (II) Unloading module nvidia (EE) Failed to load module nvidia These seem to be the important lines and are the same in Xorg.0.log and in Xorg.0.log.old. The logs with nouveau are lost. I rebootet to often and there is only one Xorg.0.log.old file. As far as I remember those lines did not look notably different from the nvidia ones. Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? In this case I hope it is enough to repartition / and /boot partitions and leave the other ones as they are. Yours Hans Vogelsberger -- Dieser Account aktzeptiert nur Mails, die an von mir abonnierte Listen gerichtet sind. - This account accepts only postings which are directed to lists subscribed by me. - Questo account accetta solo messaggi che si rivolgono a liste sottoscritte da me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0f4afb.3050...@schwaz.net
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net wrote: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. I just had exactly the same problem. nvidia-glx cannot be installed, apparently, as it breaks everything (or a bunch of other stuff). Using aptitude, I manually removed all of the nvidia packages (nvidia-kernel-common, -dkms, etc.), installed xorg-video-nouveau (although I'd rather use the proprietary driver), moved /etc/X11/xorg.conf (a file generated by nvidia-config which tries to load the nvidia module, so that 'startx' still fails), after all of which 'startx' finally worked. I tried all kinds of ways to try to get the nvidia drivers to work, but had no luck. At least now I'm in X, albeit with the nouveau driver. Who knows? Maybe it will turn out to be OK. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajvvksnsb6m2xgaryuhvw8+bv7zsjbxhe1f2q2vobn+_zof...@mail.gmail.com
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
* Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net [2011-07-02 18:44:43 +0200]: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. Nouveau did not work after I bought my Fujitsu in January. Installing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg, libdrm-nouveau1a, and libdrm-nouveau1a-dbg and changing the Driver line in Section Device of /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Vim from NVIDIA to nouveau and after another reboot to NOUVEAU did not work either. The Identifier line was NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and thus correct, the other sections in xorg.conf were not printed but configured elsewhere, and xdm and xfce4 had worked well all the time. I rechanged the Driver line with Vim again back to NVIDIA, rebootet and dpkg-reconfigured whatever seemed necessary, And rebootet again. Near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following lines showed up: (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) LoadModule: nvidia (WW) Warning: couldn't open module nvidia (II) Unloading module nvidia (EE) Failed to load module nvidia These seem to be the important lines and are the same in Xorg.0.log and in Xorg.0.log.old. The logs with nouveau are lost. I rebootet to often and there is only one Xorg.0.log.old file. As far as I remember those lines did not look notably different from the nvidia ones. Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? In this case I hope it is enough to repartition / and /boot partitions and leave the other ones as they are. Yours Hans Vogelsberger Hans, Try reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kernel likely changed during your upgrade and the driver needs to have his kernel module recompiled against the new kernel version. Try that and report back. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110702170445.ge28...@gmail.com
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: * Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net [2011-07-02 18:44:43 +0200]: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. Nouveau did not work after I bought my Fujitsu in January. Installing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg, libdrm-nouveau1a, and libdrm-nouveau1a-dbg and changing the Driver line in Section Device of /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Vim from NVIDIA to nouveau and after another reboot to NOUVEAU did not work either. The Identifier line was NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and thus correct, the other sections in xorg.conf were not printed but configured elsewhere, and xdm and xfce4 had worked well all the time. I rechanged the Driver line with Vim again back to NVIDIA, rebootet and dpkg-reconfigured whatever seemed necessary, And rebootet again. Near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following lines showed up: (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) LoadModule: nvidia (WW) Warning: couldn't open module nvidia (II) Unloading module nvidia (EE) Failed to load module nvidia These seem to be the important lines and are the same in Xorg.0.log and in Xorg.0.log.old. The logs with nouveau are lost. I rebootet to often and there is only one Xorg.0.log.old file. As far as I remember those lines did not look notably different from the nvidia ones. Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? In this case I hope it is enough to repartition / and /boot partitions and leave the other ones as they are. Yours Hans Vogelsberger Hans, Try reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kernel likely changed during your upgrade and the driver needs to have his kernel module recompiled against the new kernel version. Try that and report back. That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajvvksm9mzd3lzyijeyspsfdnvuf7akqnqvwtwcfb0yfe...@mail.gmail.com
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On 2011-07-02 19:08 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. I think the problem is the new multiarch path of libGL.so.1¹. The nvidia packages divert this file and replace it with their own version, and the versions in testing have not been adapted to the new filesystem layout yet. Actually they are uninstallable, because libgl1-mesa-glx breaks libgl1-nvidia-alternatives (= 275.09.07-1), the version in wheezy. Sven ¹ http://blog.mraw.org/2011/06/18/mesa_a_disturbance_in_the_Force/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874o34k29s@turtle.gmx.de
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On 2011-07-02 18:44 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer cannot be done. This should serve as a warning to closely look out which packages are to be removed by a full-upgrade and back out if necessary. Nouveau did not work after I bought my Fujitsu in January. Installing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg, libdrm-nouveau1a, and libdrm-nouveau1a-dbg and changing the Driver line in Section Device of /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Vim from NVIDIA to nouveau and after another reboot to NOUVEAU did not work either. The Identifier line was NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and thus correct, the other sections in xorg.conf were not printed but configured elsewhere, and xdm and xfce4 had worked well all the time. I rechanged the Driver line with Vim again back to NVIDIA, rebootet and dpkg-reconfigured whatever seemed necessary, And rebootet again. Near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following lines showed up: (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) LoadModule: nvidia (WW) Warning: couldn't open module nvidia (II) Unloading module nvidia (EE) Failed to load module nvidia These seem to be the important lines and are the same in Xorg.0.log and in Xorg.0.log.old. The logs with nouveau are lost. I rebootet to often and there is only one Xorg.0.log.old file. As far as I remember those lines did not look notably different from the nvidia ones. Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? Douglas Adams has some advice for you: DON'T PANIC. Your system is almost certainly not broken beyond repair and does not need to be reinstalled. Install the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and xserver-xorg-video-vesa packages if they are not installed already, move your /etc/X11/xorg.conf aside and retry to start X. The nvidia packages will not be installable for a few days, unfortunately. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqlsimvn@turtle.gmx.de
Re: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Saturday 30 Sivan 5771 21:00:28 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. I think the problem is the new multiarch path of libGL.so.1¹. The nvidia packages divert this file and replace it with their own version, and the versions in testing have not been adapted to the new filesystem layout yet. Actually they are uninstallable, because libgl1-mesa-glx breaks libgl1-nvidia-alternatives (= 275.09.07-1), the version in wheezy. I know this is playing with fire but I did this: sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 This points the multiarch version to where the /usr/lib version points. Save the original symlink to libGL.so.1.2 to be safe but easy enough to restore is need be. You might also manually point the nvidia/diversion to that one. Anyway, I had X and NVidia driver working fine but openGL apps crashed out. After this symlink, flightgear started fine so it fixed my problem in any event. Nouveau might not find libGL at all right now. This multiarch business may be a good idea, but partial upgrades to Sid can cause havoc as did recent upgrades to libc6 stuff on my box. Please finish it and then post the upgrades :-)
RE: NVIDIA - URGENT
On Sat, Jul 2, I wrote: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X. After that, I went to the TV and saw some news. When I returned to the computer, I already found important answers: Chris Brennan: Try reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kernel likely changed during your upgrade and the driver needs to have his kernel module recompi- led against the new kernel version. Try that and report back. I aptitude-searched nvidia and tried to reinstall nvidia-kernel-2.6- amd64; answer: not found (right now it no longer shows up in aptitude search nvidia). Then, because there was a line nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5- amd64, I tried to install nvidia-kernel-2.6.39-2-amd64, my actual uname kernel. I should have known better: not found. Patrick Wiseman: I just had exactly the same problem. nvidia-glx ... breaks every- thing ... . Using aptitude, I manually removed all of the nvidia packages ... , installed xorg-video-nouveau (although I'd rather use the proprietary driver), moved /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... , after all of which 'startx' finally worked. ... albeit with the nouveau driver. Who knows? Maybe it will turn out to be OK. Since purging the packages by hand which had an 'i' in aptitude search nvidia seemed less work than trying to reinstall them, I now tried the method of Patrick - with one difference: instead of moving /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section device to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not even startx was necessary. So, my problem was solved, and what is especially important: extremely fast, and solely by help from debian-users-list. The main mistake I made before asking for help was not to remove the nvidia files. Sven Joachim: I think the problem is the new multiarch path of libGL.so.1¹. The nvidia packages divert this file and replace it with their own ver- sion, and the versions in testing have not been adapted to the new filesystem layout yet. Actually they are uninstallable, because libgl1-mesa-glx breaks libgl1-nvidia-alternatives (= 275.09.07-1), the version in wheezy. Looks plausible. This should serve as a warning to closely look out which packages are to be removed by a full-upgrade and back out if necessary. You are right. I use Testing since it came up in Potato times, and this is the third time that an upgrade made real difficulties. All of those were with X. I am afraid by now I am much too audacious. Since I reti- red 20 years ago I increasingly solved my problems by instinct and feeling instead of by knowledge and learning, a behaviour which I never allowed my pupils and teachers while in work. DON'T PANIC. You are right again, but while writing those thoughts down the panic vanished. Anyhow, a new install of wheezy with partitions remaining unchanged seems an attractiv experiment, but for this, I am afraid, my audacity is not strong enough. Install the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and xserver-xorg-video-vesa packages if they are not installed already, ... Both are installed, but there is something in /usr/share/bug which I shall read tomorrow. The nvidia packages will not be installable for a few days, unfortunately. Thank you, Chris, Patrick and Sven, for your fast and important answers. And, please, do excuse the talkativeness of an old man. Yours Hans. -- Dieser Account aktzeptiert nur Mails, die an von mir abonnierte Listen gerichtet sind. - This account accepts only postings which are directed to lists subscribed by me. - Questo account accetta solo messaggi che si rivolgono a liste sottoscritte da me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0f9379.6000...@schwaz.net
