adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com on 02/12/06 21:27, wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 20:35 +0000, matthew yee-king wrote:
>>> Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>> I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic.
>>>>
>>>> I answered several of the questions posed by the installation
>>>> processses of some of the packages but I must have answered one of them
>>>> very wrongly.
>>>> Now my system-, firefox- and thunderbird text refuses to appear until I
>>>> drag the mouse across it.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure how I managed to trash the system and I don't see
>>>> anything immediate to restore it.
>>>>
>>>> This is the same in KDE, Gnome and Enlightenment. Can someone tell me
>>>> where to start?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? If so, I had this problem
>>> recently I think. My solution is here:
>>>
>>> http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/m...eb2583.en.html
>>>
>>>
>> It worked! I had previously installed the nVidia driver using nVidia's
>> installer. I used the same installer to uninstall (using the --uninstall
>> argument) the module. Then I used the instructions [1] linked from the
>> above page to compile and install it the Debian way. Note that I had to
>> uninstall the previous module first, or it didn't work.
>>
>> [1] http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html
>
> I am following these instructions and nvidia-glx won't install because it
> says xserver-common which is uninstallable because it's broken.
>
> I am using xorg not xfree86. Are these installation packages made only for
> xfree86?
>
> Of course I uninstalled the previous nvidia driver, so now x won't run and I
> can't reinstall the old nvidia driver because it wants a different GCC
> version.
>
> I guess I should go and google up some info on nvidia for xorg - but perhaps
> a fellow lister knows the answer already.

Managed to reinstall the old nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com, not what I had
planned but it solved the problem.

I didn't find any clear solution to the dependency issue of the debian packaged
nvidia driver on xserver-common - although there was some discussion of the issue:

http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/m...9b5c7a.en.html

thanks for the

Adam


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