no problem, glad it helped. you may want to put some of your kde specific items back in as i am running standard ubuntu not kubuntu.<br><br>Cheers<br>James<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
John D.</b> <<a href="mailto:johnsemail@f2s.com">johnsemail@f2s.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sunday 18 June 2006 15:35, Pybe wrote:<br>> Your sources list is basicly the same as mine i think (see attached). Did<br>> you apt-get update 1st? If not try that then the apt-cache search.<br>><br>> sudo apt-get update && apt-cache search linux-restricted-modules
<br>><br>> Gives me:<br>><br>> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-386 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on<br>> 386<br>> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-686 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on<br>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
<br>> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-k7 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on<br>> AMD K7<br>> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-25-386 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on<br>> 386<br>> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-25-686
- Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on<br>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV<br>> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-25-k7 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on<br>> AMD K7<br>> linux-restricted-modules-386 - Restricted Linux modules on 386.
<br>> linux-restricted-modules-686 - Restricted Linux modules on<br>> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.<br>> linux-restricted-modules-common - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules helper<br>> script<br>> linux-restricted-modules-k7 - Restricted Linux modules on AMD K7.
<br>><br>> HTH<br>> James<br>Thanks James,<br><br>Yes it did help (Ha! absolutely bloody marvellous). Obviously one of the<br>different sources on the end of the list i.e. the ones that do differ from<br>what I had must have had the packages - which one? I don't know.
<br><br>I just copied my list to sources.list.old and then bunged in the one that you<br>attached and did the "sudo apt-get update && apt-cache search<br>linux-restricted-modules" and it showed all the various bits - in fact adept
<br>showed me that there was updates available on the toolbar immediately, so I<br>just rebooted into the new kernel and installed the nvidia-glx and<br>linux-restricted-modules updates, re-started the session and bingo, a nice
<br>shiny desktop and a terminal that told me<br><br>:~$ uname -r<br>2.6.15-25-686<br>:~$<br><br>Hoorah!<br><br>Again, thanks very much for the direction/assistance. Very much appreciated.<br><br>regards<br><br>John D.<br>
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