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

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/05/2011 23:23, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for a

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:23:19 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. (...) Just a quick

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/05/2011 10:37, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:23:19 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need the corresponding kernel version package. Whilst what you say is true, a lot of the agony of installing nVidia drivers can be done

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, (replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's) Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need the

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/05/2011 11:23, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, (replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's) Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati)

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Don't ask me why -maybe due to inexperience-, but the first time I had Inexperience? You? Unfamiliar, perhaps. to deal with the closed nvidia driver in Debian I prefered¹ to not use dkms and manually pulled the

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/05/2011 12:10, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. No surprise there. The D in DKMS

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 15 May 2011 14:13:07 +0200 tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello tv.deb...@googlemail.com, More like Dell who first developed it, it is supposed to really stands for Dynamic. I may very well be wrong but I think it appears You're right; I don't what made me

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. openSUSE should now have DKMS as well[1] I was a great fan of module-assistant, but since dkms

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:57:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. openSUSE should now have DKMS as

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi Curt, On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote: I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to simlinks. If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it. I did

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 mai 11, 17:58:30, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:57:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to

[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

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread David Baron
I had this happen with recent xorg update from Sid. Log said that (proprietary) Nvidia driver was no longer compatable with the new Xorg version. So I ran its installer (version 260) with update which downloaded and installed version 270 (but did not keep that installer!) and this works fine.

NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for a GT520 and got identical results. I tried a

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell L. Carter wrote: I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. ... You aren't

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/14/2011 04:56 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell L. Carter wrote: I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Curt Howland
I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to simlinks. If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it. Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi Curt, On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote: I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to simlinks. If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it. I did that. I reinstalled