ti4200 debian squeeze INSTALL PROBLEM

[anyunusednick]

First, Yes it is probably me. This card driver installed with almost no problems using Debian Lenny on the same box. The only different hardware is a new hard drive. The only problems installing on Lenny were mine. I did a clean install of squeeze (w/firmware) netinst. I select no software and add contrib and non-free to my sources.list and apt-get update. I then apt-get install x-window-system-core kde kdm. x-window-system-core is now gone and it installs the xorg stuff anyway. Whether I use the NVIDIA-Linux*96.43.19.run or the "Debian Way" I get the same results. For the last try I did a clean install and then removed everything "nouveau" and "nvidia". I did m-a prepare to make sure I had all needed tools. I then installed the NVIDIA-L*.run and it completed with no problems. I selected to not make an xorg.conf. GUI comes up fine. I get one screen resolution and nvidia comes up with 'lsmod'. But I have no glx capabilities.

kevin@M1P3X6:~/Downloads$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
(REDUNDANT LINES REMOVED)
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
(REDUNDANT LINES REMOVED)
2 GLXFBConfigs:
   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Segmentation fault

If I include an xorg.conf wheter created by nvidia-xconfig or X -configure or manually created I sit at the KDM login with slow response keyboard and slow response mouseclick (although the mouse cursor will move responsively). I get the error:

[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80adedb]
1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x1ab) [0x80a047b]
2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventP+0xd2) [0x80b3592]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb5953000+0x4831) [0xb5957831]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb5953000+0x4b26) [0xb5957b26]
5: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x69a7f) [0x80b1a7f]
6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1094e4) [0x81514e4]
7: (vdso) (__kernel_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb7768400]

The above is from /var/log/kdm.log

I have tried minimalistic xorg.conf (just load "nvidia") to full blown everything but the kitchen sink and get the same results. I really don't want to disable hal and/or udev
but I would like to use google earth again and vnc into my other computer (with decent response).
Sometimes, (with xorg.conf) I can ctrl-alt-f1, login, startx and I am in and the nvidia-settings shows glx tags in the left pane. When I click on one I am locked up and usually need to hard reset.
I know I am missing something and it does not appear to an Nvidia or Nvidia driver problem but hoping someone has been through this and succeeded. I can post logs (here or through pastebin) with or without xorg.conf(s). If you want to take a crack at it let me know. Thanks for looking.

Dell 4550 2.8Ghz
lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a3)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

(partial) lsmod: (without xorg.conf)

loop                    9729  0 
snd_intel8x0           19595  3 
snd_ac97_codec         79148  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                 710  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                47226  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                35327  0 
nvidia               4650837  0 
snd_timer              12258  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
i2c_i801                6462  0 
snd_seq_device          3673  1 snd_seq
snd                    34387  11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
i2c_core               12751  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
psmouse                44777  0 
dcdbas                  3860  0 
soundcore               3450  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          4977  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp                 21220  0 
parport_pc             15799  1 
button                  3598  0 
parport                22554  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
rng_core                2178  0 
evdev                   5609  10

Thanks

[anyunusednick]

I just tried the 96.43.20 driver and get the same problem.