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Old 08-31-2004, 11:30 PM   #1
drawhla
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problems with NVIDIA driver and Mozilla


Hello again
I managed to solve most of my problems but two new ones appeared, the first one is that I cant install the nvivida drivers that i downloaded from nvidia.com, in the end of the installation it tells me that I don't have the kernel-source installed and I do have it (i recently recompiled the kernel to 2.6.7), I tried with the --path-to-kernel option and it trhows me the same error
the second one is tha everytime I trie to type anithing in mozilla or firefox it freezes and I cant even kill the proces, I have to wait till it shuts down by itself, i tried reinstalleing with the same results, the only clue I have is that when I install or remove mozilla it complains something about perl that cant find locales, I recently fixed the locales stuf (thanks to macondos great guide) but it seems that perl didn't find out yet, and i can't reinstall it

somebody help!!!
 
Old 09-01-2004, 08:58 AM   #2
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I followed these instructions on my Sarge install and it worked wonderfully!
http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debia...-dri-howto.txt
 
Old 09-01-2004, 11:36 AM   #3
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Why can't you reinstall Perl?
 
Old 09-01-2004, 11:45 AM   #4
drawhla
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because if I do apt-get remove perl it wants to remove half of the apps I installed, and I dont feel like reinstalling all that
 
Old 09-01-2004, 05:47 PM   #5
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you need the kernel headers, not the kernel source

Code:
apt-get install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
nvidia-installer --force-update
to kill a process, do

Code:
killall -9 mozilla-bin
to reinstall a package, do

Code:
apt-get --reinstall install perl

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