my X11 just got hosed

[pkahle at pobox.com (Peter Kahle)]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 20:08, Brian J. Conway wrote:
> Did you reinstall the nVidia package after updating XFree86?  It sounds
> like it wiped out the driver directory.
> 
> -b

Another possibility is a kernel upgrade. Even debian bugfixes without
version changes sometimes overwrite/delete the driver module that's been
installed separately. I've been bitten by that one a few times. 
P
(sorry to Brian for replying to him instead of the list a minute ago.
Been a long weekend.)


> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:04:09 -0400
> ron.peterson at yellowbank.com wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 01:45:36PM -0400, ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone else recently upgraded their Debian system?  Any problems
> > > with X?
> > 
> > I had to change the 'nv' driver downloaded from nvidia.com to the older
> > 'nvidia' driver which ships with the distribution.  It works, but my
> > resolution is crappy.
> > 
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