NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Thomas Olsen]

On Saturday 28 August 2010 04:19:46 Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 11:09 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 28/08/2010 10:59, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 10:36 +1000, Steve Morris wrote:
> > >> I used to use the drivers from nvidia a long time ago on a different
> > >> linux dist. and as long as the kernel headers were installed the
> > >> driver compiled and installed fine. You may need to run an ldconfig
> > >> after copy the driver to the modules directory, also a depmod may
> > >> need to be run first to build the new list of kernel modules for
> > >> ldconfig to update the cache. There is also a log file created from
> > >> running the upstream process, I don't remember where it is created
> > >> but I think the process says where it has been placed, you may want
> > >> to have a look at that to check for errors or additional instructions
> > >> on any further processes that may be required.
> > > 
> > > There seems to be some sort of conflict using the factory supplied .run
> > > file with the latest versions of Ubuntu. I'm an old hand at using the
> > > nVidia supplied driver, until around Karmic. It caused more tears than
> > > do what it was supposed to do, so I have not deviated from the
> > > "approved" method and gink up my install since. If anyone has used
> > > the .run file method since Karmic, as was successful, I'd like to know.
> > > For a newbie, I don't think I'd recommend it, at all.  :) Ric
> > 
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
> 
> ..and there you have it. "The Hardware Drivers tool may not work
> properly on machines that have previously used third party tools like
> 'Envy' or manual installation to install previous drivers. You should
> remove those drivers before attempting to install using the built in
> tool."


Thanks for all the answers. Replied in 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users because this is was 
correctly pointed out to me that this is more Ubuntu than Kubuntu.

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Best regards / med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen