Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 15:03:39, Russell L. Carter wrote: Not now... I reinstalled from scratch and after spending a few hours learning the ins and outs of the udev bug (fix by rm -f /run, hmm) I have a brand spanking new installation running nvidia-kernel-dkms successfully. - current udev in sid

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-16 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/05/2011 20:52, Russell L. Carter wrote: First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a fixed hardware config that I've tracked

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/16/2011 01:57 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 15/05/2011 20:52, Russell L. Carter wrote: [...] Do you have the logs from the upgrade right before the crash, what packages got upgraded ? In between your different trials you cleaned up thoroughly ? I am thinking Nvidia .run

[some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a fixed hardware config that I've tracked debian-testing on for two years, and also

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
I left out the step of replacing Driver=nouveau with Driver=nvidia in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. On 05/15/2011 11:52 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote: First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote: I left out the step of replacing Driver=nouveau with Driver=nvidia in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. Does this mean that everything is ok now? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/15/2011 12:17 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote: I left out the step of replacing Driver=nouveau with Driver=nvidia in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. Does this mean that everything is ok now? Ah, sorry, no, I left out the step of switching