kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi all, after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. I have tended to the bios and reset to optimized, fail safe etc. Prior to the power outage there wasnt anything fancy in the bios settings regardless.

nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Seb
Hi, For the last several days, nvidia-glx fails to upgrade with apt-get install nvidia-glx (or apt-get update): --cut here---start- The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-glx-ia32 but it is not going to be

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
you need to make the kernel module. its easy, if module-assistant (m-a) isnt installed, just go apt-get install module-assistant (may not be with a -) then do this... m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia Dean Seb wrote: Hi, For the last several days, nvidia-glx fails to upgrade with apt-get

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Se
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:24 +1100, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need to make the kernel module. its easy, if module-assistant (m-a) isnt installed, just go apt-get install module-assistant (may not be with a -) then do this... m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia Thanks, I

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On Jan 13, 2008 5:37 PM, Se [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:24 +1100, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need to make the kernel module. its easy, if module-assistant (m-a) isnt installed, just go apt-get install module-assistant (may not be with a -) then

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
looks like kernel module built is an older version check your mirror sources, um, what else, maybe flush out your apt cache. try apt-get source nvidia-graphics-drivers see what version it downloads. Dean Se wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:24 +1100, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:58:25AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. I have tended to the bios and reset to optimized, fail safe etc. Prior to the power outage

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
good question, however in my experience power failures (especially breakers going) seem to reset bios's from time to time. i will take a look at the bios battery, however there doesnt seem to be any problems with the bios retaining its settings. Dean Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14,

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-13 Thread Don Montgomery
I looked at the apt-get howto located at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-sources.list and grabbed some additional lines for my /etc/apt/sources.list file, which now reads: # deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Rob Andrews
On 13-Jan-2008 23:37.19 (GMT), Se wrote: Thanks, I do use module-assistant whenever a new kernel source is available, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. module-assistant built and installed this package for me: nvidia-kernel-2.6.23-1-amd64_100.14.19-1+2.6.23-2_amd64.deb

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: I looked at the apt-get howto located at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-sources.list and grabbed some additional lines for my /etc/apt/sources.list file, which now reads: ---