DEbian etch, problem with new nvidia driver

[isuck@linux]

I installed nvidia drivers using apt-get and they were working just fine, but when in check the nvidia site I found a newer one with an installer. I decided to give a try and install it. It worked perfectly, the new driver was faster and rendered much better. Then problem was when I reboot my computer, my nvidia driver didn't work anymore and got a black screen instead, I re-installed it and worked again, until i reboot my laptop again. Can anyone help me to solve this problem? I don't really know what could be wrong, I don't see any errors in the xconf logs. But I saw many errors in the log file from the nvidia-installer. Any help would be appreciated. TIA.

[ibanex22]

possibly the "nvidia" module is not getting loaded at boot time? after you boot do a:

lsmod | grep nvidia

to see if it's there.

[isuck@linux]

I changed nv for nvidia again in the xorg.conf file, when it failed i switched to tty1 and run lsmod|grep nvidia, its showing 3 files

nvidia
ic2_core
agpgart

Anything else should I be seen here? How can i debug this X system to see what the hell is going wrong?

thanks for the replies

[rocketman768]

Just to make sure, are you installing the nvidia drivers in single-user text mode? You should be. If you are, make sure that

1) /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists and
2) that <kernel-version> is the currently running kernel.

I personally have never had any problems with nvidia's installer. In fact, I have had more problems with aptitude getting the pre-built driver for me! Just remember that anytime you rebuild the kernel modules, it will wipe out your nvidia module and you will have to run the installer again.

By the way, I would like to see the log file from the installer.

[isuck@linux]

I got some help from other folks and the problem was that I installed the old nvidia driver glx and common kernel packets using apt-get. After that i removed the packets but in order for everything to go good the old nvidia drivers installed using apt-get need to be removed using the --purge option, or the new driver will not work. Thanks for the reply.