Nvidia driver problems

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

Hm. Now the weirdness is that 3.2 doesn't even show up as an option in
Grub. But I did sudo updat-grub, and that seems to have fixed that problem.
Now X is working and Nvidia drivers seem to be working (mostly) as well.
Thanks for the clue!!

I'm still having some problems, though:

* keyboard isn't working beyond the login screen
* window decorations are missing
* all of my desktop effects are not working

I guess I'll keep hammering away at this for now...


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