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On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 06:08:32PM +0000, bad apple wrote: > > Nvidia really have been making a mess of their binary driver > distribution on Debian/Ubuntu/etc recently... Phil posted a weirdly > prescient and cryptic error message relating to this months ago which I > initially ridiculed and then promptly ran into myself several times over > the next few months. > > Anyway, presuming the error log is correctly identifying your GPU > chipset (NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a GPU) then it is no longer > supported* by nvidia-current and you need to use an older legacy release. > > sudo apt-get purge nvidia* > sudo apt-get install nvidia-304-updates > > Wait for dkms to do it's thing and reboot. > > Alternatively, as you're running testing anyway and must therefore be > brave and skilled enough to fix broken things, use the experimental > version instead: > > sudo apt-get install nvidia-experimental-304 > > Regards > > * see: > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.88/README/supportedchips.html > Many thanks I can now get X windows working, still can't get Nvidia drivers working: back to Nouveau. Will try again next weekend -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Sat 22 Mar 20:32:46 GMT 2014 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq