[mythtv-users] X Not Starting - NVIDIA 260.19.12 driver upgrade

[tortise]

On 10/11/2010 1:23 a.m., Greg Oliver wrote:

>
> You should not have to mess with any of that.  I no longer have any
> *buntu machines with nvidia cards, so I do not know the exact name of
> the packages, but what is output if you run "dpkg-reconfigure
> <nvidia-driver-package>"


:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-current
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
dpkg-trigger: dpkg-trigger must be called from a maintainer script (or 
with a --by-package option)
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic-pae
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic-pae
Loading new nvidia-current-260.19.12 DKMS files...
Building only for 2.6.32-25-generic-pae
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-25-generic-pae
Done.

nvidia-current.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
  - Original module
    - No original module exists within this kernel
  - Installation
    - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic-pae/updates/dkms/

depmod......

DKMS: install Completed.

Greg's the Dude, that did the business, now it boots as expected and as 
it used to.  As they say "much gracii..."   Weird that only one machine 
had this problem, but I guess that's computing!

> It sounds like somehow you booted a kernel without which the nvidia
> module was compiled for.  dkms should have handled that, but
> apparently not - or more likely, the driver build failed without
> notifying you.
>
> What is the output when you simply try to "modprobe nvidia" from a shell?

And as you ask: before and after reboot(!)

:~$ modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.


And just after reboot:

:~$ modprobe nvidia-current
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia_current 
(/lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko): 
Operation not permitted

I'm not sure that I need the sudo in front for our purposes, especailly 
as the problem was fixed with sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-current

Once again the Nix list has it all over commercial software support....