Nvidia driver problems

[Nils Kassube]

Girard Henri wrote:
> Le 13/08/2012 21:47, Nils Kassube a écrit :
> > Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> >> I'm using Kubuntu 12.04.
> >> 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
> > 
> > IMHO that means that you are currently running kernel 3.0.0-12
> > which is from 11.10 IIRC. Reboot to the 3.2.0-29-generic kernel
> > and the Nvidia driver should be working again. However if it is
> > intentional for some reason that you are running the old kernel,
> > you should install the package linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic from
> > the 11.10 repository and then reinstall the nvidia-current package
> > which should now succeed building the module.
> > 
> > 
> > Nils
> 
> Have you tried jockey-kde to install them ? Then it is automatic

Well, the problem seems to be that Richard uses a kernel from an older 
Kubuntu version. Therefore the automatic fails.


Nils