Updated nvidia driver, now want the old one back (solved)

[Eadwine Rose]

All went ok on the new install, so I figured, let's update mx14's nvidia driver as well.

Start tvtime, get choppy output. Drat.

Same on the new install.

How do I roll back those upgraded packages to version 319.82-1~bpo70+1 I believe the former was?



Never mind.. crooked volt I guess..

[kmathern]

All went ok on the new install, so I figured, let's update mx14's nvidia driver as well.

Start tvtime, get choppy output. Drat.

Same on the new install.

How do I roll back those upgraded packages to version 319.82-1~bpo70+1 I believe the former was?

What version do you have installed right now?

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inxi -Gxx

The 319.82-1~bpo70+2 version is what's currently in the wheezy-backports repo.

The only difference between the +1 version and +2 is that it was patched to add support for 3.13 and 3.14 kernels

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$ apt-get changelog nvidia-driver/wheezy-backports

nvidia-graphics-drivers (319.82-1~bpo70+2) wheezy-backports; urgency=medium

  * linux-3.14.patch: New. Add support for Linux 3.14.

 -- Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>  Fri, 23 May 2014 04:53:12 +0200

nvidia-graphics-drivers (319.82-1~bpo70+1) wheezy-backports; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild for wheezy-backports.

 -- Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:04:16 +0100

[Eadwine Rose]

$ inxi -Gxx
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA Device 1282 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1282
Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GT 640/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!
GLX Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.82 Direct Rendering: Yes


Ok tried to put a clone back on the other drive, no workie.. so I come back to my install.. I start tvtime again and it's solved


Never mind then.. crooked volt.

But that will teach me for sure!! oof.


Thanks for wanting to help Kmathern!!

[uncle mark]

Ok tried to put a clone back on the other drive, no workie.. so I come back to my install.. I start tvtime again and it's solved


Never mind then.. crooked volt.

I wiped a W8 machine last night and installed a Jessie based KDE distro. Had some major graphics weirdness initially, then over time it got less and less weird and finally seemed to straighten itself out. This is with me not doing anything other than just messing with it, updating, doing some light configuring, adding a handful of programs. It did it with the deafult/recommended Intel driver and I changed nothing in that regard. Makes no sense, but I'm not going to complain.

The owner had infected this thing three times in the last three weeks. I told him last night he was getting Linux. He asked what that meant. I told him it was an infection proof operating system that he could use to cruise pr0n to his heart's content. He asked if he could still use his Google Chrome. I told him yes, and he said go for it.