Is anyone else here testing the Intrepid Alpha?
I did a dist upgrade on my working hardy system. Everything works, with the one major exception of it breaking the nVidia drivers on my machine: After the update, modprobe nvidia errors out because /sbin/lrm-video is no longer present.
Checking some other forums, I found that this could be because /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video isn't cleaned up (removed) during the upgrade. I moved that file to another folder and the modprobe still fails (but now because it claims it can't find nvidia.ko - which isn't present anywhere I can find).
Envy isn't upgraded to work with intrepid yet.
Installing the drivers from the package at nVidia.com doesn't work either: The first problem is that both the desktop and server kernels appear to have Xen enabled. I installed the source, disabled Xen, and got nVidia's package to build... but it still doesn't load.
Compiling the 2.6.26-2 kernel doesn't appear to work at this point either - make modules bombs out during ndiswrapper/crt.o because it can't find crt_exports.h.
Oh well, I guess that's why it's called Alpha 1.
Everything works fine when using the unaccelerated nv driver. I was a bit surprise to see the "Welcome to Debian" prompt when KDM started, though.
I'm about to go away for a week of vacation, when I get back home I guess I'll see if there have been any package updates that might resolve the issues.
-J
I did a dist upgrade on my working hardy system. Everything works, with the one major exception of it breaking the nVidia drivers on my machine: After the update, modprobe nvidia errors out because /sbin/lrm-video is no longer present.
Checking some other forums, I found that this could be because /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video isn't cleaned up (removed) during the upgrade. I moved that file to another folder and the modprobe still fails (but now because it claims it can't find nvidia.ko - which isn't present anywhere I can find).
Envy isn't upgraded to work with intrepid yet.
Installing the drivers from the package at nVidia.com doesn't work either: The first problem is that both the desktop and server kernels appear to have Xen enabled. I installed the source, disabled Xen, and got nVidia's package to build... but it still doesn't load.
Compiling the 2.6.26-2 kernel doesn't appear to work at this point either - make modules bombs out during ndiswrapper/crt.o because it can't find crt_exports.h.
Oh well, I guess that's why it's called Alpha 1.
Everything works fine when using the unaccelerated nv driver. I was a bit surprise to see the "Welcome to Debian" prompt when KDM started, though.
I'm about to go away for a week of vacation, when I get back home I guess I'll see if there have been any package updates that might resolve the issues.
-J
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