I did a CPU upgrade this morning to the latest Liquorix kernel and I followed that with a reinstallation of the latest nVidia driver, all of this using smxi. Seeing the warnings re upgrades I then went no further.

As I rebooted I saw "Bad Driver" in red letters on the nVidia logo as the system booted. I next went back into smxi, returned to the graphics installation page and reinstalled the "latest nVidia." Again as I booted I saw the same "Bad Driver" notice.

The odd part? Everything seems to work quite normally. This is what inxi F reports:

System: Host: Home03 Kernel: 2.6.39-3.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop Gnome 2.30.2 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
Machine: System: System76 (portable) product: Pangolin Performance version: panp4n
Mobo: CLEVO model: M740TU(N)/M760TU(N) Bios: Phoenix version: 1.02.18 date: 02/25/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T6400 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3)
Clock Speeds: 1: 1200.00 MHz 2: 1200.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: nVidia G98 [GeForce 9300M GS] X.Org: 1.7.7 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1680x1050@50.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 9300M GS/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 275.19
Audio: Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: 00:90:f5:89:f9:fd
Card-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlagn
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:21:5d:9f:da:0e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (37.6% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi_HTS72322 250.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 14G used: 6.3G (48%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 15G used: 211M (2%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 6.76GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info: Processes: 125 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 209.2/3017.6MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.20-2

Q. If nVidia 275.19 has not installed correctly how is my display being handled? If I go to System/Preferences/NVIDIA X Server Settings everything there looks perfectly normal. My screen resolution is set as it should be.

Q. Is it advisable in a case such as this to retain the new kernel and drop down to an earlier version of the nVidia driver?

Q. Is the root of this a bad kernel installation? How do I determine that given that everything seems to work as it should?

Q. Is it prudent to just back out of this latest Liquorix/nVidia combination and return to my earlier Liquorix/nVidia combination which has worked quite well?
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that 'bad driver' thing is just the linux kernel authors being dorks, geeks.

That's the kernel saying: a non free driver is attached to me, oh no!!!

there is no meaning beyond that.

When I'm doing testing on sgfxi, the first thing I do on X start is:
inxi -Gx

if all the glx information is there, and the nvidia driver is there, then the driver is operating the desktop. Period.
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Makes sense to me, thanks techadmin.

I promise not to let my non-free self spoil the party.
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