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

[belcampo]

tortise wrote:
> 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
Yes you need sudo
> 
> Once again the Nix list has it all over commercial software support....
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