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Hello Randy and everyone.
I also had this problem, exactly as described in the initial post, when
trying to upgrade from 5336 to 6106. Installing 6111 unfortunately
didn't fix it, either. (It always worked when reverting back to 5336.)
I have the new version working now, though.
It turned out not to be the kernel at all. It was apparently the
debian package script that was not properly removing all remnants of
5336 during the upgrade process, and this caused problems with later
versions. I'm not an expert on how debian package management works
though, so someone else should probably confirm it...
The scripts in the nvidia-glx package may need some checking, I guess.
Here's the work-around that I found:
Firstly, there's a discussion about the problem here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31077 . The most
relevant points are in the last few comments, and I'll repeat the main
steps in this report in case it vanishes from the web one day. (Please
note that I can't vouch for the safety of these steps in all
situations. Use your own judgement and please comment if you see
anything monumentously stupid in my steps below.)
1) Uninstall the old nvidia-glx
2) Remove /usr/lib/tls (it should only contain at most links to
nvidia-libs)
3) Remove /usr/lib/nvidia
4) Boot into runlevel 2.
5) Install the newer nvidia-glx package.
When doing this on my own system, I also ran 'dpkg --purge nvidia-glx'
between steps 4 and 5. I don't know if this is necessary or not, or
perhaps it even made some of the other steps obsolete. I didn't check.
I hope this helps some people out there. It was frustrating me quite a
lot before I found the thread in that discussion forum.
Mike.
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