Nvidia driver problems

[Richard S. Crawford]

Hi all. Thanks for the replies.

I'm using Kubuntu 12.04.

I tried renaming the xorg.conf file, then start kdm, which only flickered
the screen and dropped me back to the command line. When I rebooted, I got
the same error as before:

failed to load the nvidia kernel module

I went ahead and uninstalled the Nvidia drivers:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current nvidia-173

I rebooted, and got the same error, which indicates to me that I did not
manage to remove all of the Nvidia files that are on my system.

When I tried to reinstall nvidia-current, I get the following:

Building for 3.0.0-12-generic and 3.2.0-29-generic
Building for architecture i686
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Building initial module for 3.2.0-29-generic

I'm not sure what this means, or how to proceed. Any thoughts?



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Monday, August 13, 2012 07:33:56 AM Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> > > Since applying system updates the other day I have been unable to get
> > > my Nvidia driver to work, which means my GUI is all messed up. When
> > >
> > > I examined /var/log/Xorg.0.log I found the following error:
> > >
> > >
> > > failed to load the nvidia kernel module
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've tried reinstalling the Nvidia drivers, but that didn't work.
>
> It sounds as though you may have loaded the proprietary Nvidia driver???
>
> I do the same, not liking at all what the nouveau drivers so...  (12.04)
>
> But having done this, you need to re-install the nvidia drivers every time
> there is a change to the kernel.  (not that often)
>
> You said you re-installed...  but not which set of drivers...  i.e. where
> you
> got them.
>
>
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