Bug#611425: nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64: Installing nvidia driver silences bell

[Joe Riel]

Did so.  Installation seemed to go okay.  But upon rebooting 
X would not come up.  Attached are the relevant logs, 
with extension .exp

Joe


On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:02:25 +0100
Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
> 
> please leave the bug Cc:ed.
> 
> The package you want to upgrade is 'nvidia-glx' which is the xorg
> driver and has (properly versioned) dependencies on everything it
> needs. There might be additional packages to be installed due to
> packaging changes. As there are no precompiled kernel modules for the
> driver packages in experimental, dkms will be used to build one on
> the fly.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2011-01-29 18:35, Joe Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:27:07 +0100
> > Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> Could you please test the driver currently in experimental
> >> (260.19.something) and see if the problem persists?
> > 
> > Could you advise on how to do that?
> > I adding the following line to sources.list:
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
> > 
> > then did
> > $ sudo apt-get update
> 
> so far all is fine
> 
> > $ apt-get --simulate --target-release experimental install
> > nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 NOTE: This is only a simulation!
> >       apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
> >       Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
> >       so don't depend on the relevance to the real current
> > situation! Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >   nvidia-kernel-common
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 nvidia-kernel-common
> > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 386 not upgraded.
> > Inst nvidia-kernel-common (20100522+1 Debian:testing [all])
> > Inst nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 (195.36.31+2+4+2.6.32-24
> > Debian:testing [amd64]) Conf nvidia-kernel-common (20100522+1
> > Debian:testing [all]) Conf nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64
> > (195.36.31+2+4+2.6.32-24 Debian:testing [amd64])
> > 
> > That suggests it would install the version from testing, not
> > experimental, despite the use of --target-release experimenta.  
> > Does the use of --simulate muck up the operation? 
> 
> That update looks quite OK i.e. it does what I would expect for trying
> to update the prebuilt kernel module (nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64).
> It is just the wrong package you selected, so it doesn't do what you
> expected or wanted.
> 
> Andreas



-- 
Joe Riel

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