[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#557253: nvidia-glx removes xserver

cmm cmmbbs at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 5 22:10:49 UTC 2009


Debian version is Squeeze
Kernel is 2.6.30-2-686

I'm unable to install and use the nvidia drivers. Nvidia-glx removes
xserver-xorg. The gui is gone when restarted. The only way to recover
is to reinstall xserver-xorg which removes the nvidia drivers.

Terminal readout:

debian:/home/cmm# apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  xorg-docs-core xfonts-scalable openssl-blacklist libcompress-bzip2-perl acl xfonts-base libgraphviz4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  nvidia-settings
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
  xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
  xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-glx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 38 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7,680kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,938kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 180836 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-xorg-input-all ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-wacom ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-all ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-voodoo ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-vmware ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-vesa ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-v4l ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-tseng ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-trident ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-tdfx ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-sisusb ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-sis ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-savage ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-s3virge ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-s3 ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-rendition ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-ati ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-r128 ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-openchrome ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-nv ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-neomagic ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-mga ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-mach64 ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-intel ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-i740 ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-i128 ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-fbdev ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-cirrus ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-chips ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-radeon ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-ark ...
Removing xserver-xorg ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-apm ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-evdev ...
Removing xserver-xorg-core ...
Processing triggers for hal ...
Regenerating hal fdi cache ...
Restarting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx.
(Reading database ... 180443 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-glx (from .../nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up nvidia-glx (173.14.09-5) ...
update-rc.d: warning: nvidia-glx stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (none)
debian:/home/cmm#





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