[Bug 1068341] Re: No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia driver install fails to get matching header)

[Hans Nieser]

I wanted to also confirm that comment #8 is incorrect and this bug can
be experienced with the "Additional Drivers" method of installing the
NVIDIA binary driver as well. (As far as I can tell this would affect
anyone with an NVIDIA wanting to use the binary drivers, but then I
would expect this bug to see a lot more traffic)

I did a clean Ubuntu 12.10 install today and needed to install the
NVIDIA binary driver due to nouveau causing GPU lockups shortly after
bootup with my GTX580 (worked around with nomodeset).

So directly after installation I applied some updates, rebooted, and
used the "Additional Drivers" screen to install the nvidia-current
drivers. Rebooted again, but now Unity didn't seem to come up correctly
(desktop was visible, but nothing else), and it appeared the nvidia
kernel module wasn't loaded (not in 'lsmod' output), and wasn't found by
doing a modprobe either.

I then finally got it working by installing the linux-headers and
reinstalling nvidia-current as was suggested by a previous comment.

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Title:
  No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia
  driver install fails to get matching header)

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Packages which use dkms require the linux-headers-$KERNEL_VER package
  to be installed for each linux-image-$KERNEL_VER which is installed.
  There's currently no way to specify this dependency.

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