[Solved, kinda]Nvidia driver problem

[gilpel at altern.org]

William Case wrote:

> If you have akmod and akmod-185.18.14 installed I am sure that
> 2.6.29.6-217.2.7 and 2.6.29.6-217.2.3 will work.

>From my last post yesterday, I'm sure you will understand why, at least,
2.6.29.6-217.2.3 stopped working :)

> The correct nvidia
> modules will be automatically built when you first boot into those
> kernels.  Whatever you think you may have done with akmod previously, it
> is very unlikely that your problems will re-occur.

When a testing kmod package was installed with dependencies and I never
enabled testing, I guess anything can happen but there's probably no more
danger with akmod than with anything else.

>> The "I" for interactive set-up has absolutely no effect and Shift
>> pg-up doesn't get you to the previous boot messages screen.

> I have the same problem.  I would hope someone on the list can give us a
> fix or an alternate way to step through the boot process.

Yes, this would be nice.