Nvidia driver problems

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Richard S. Crawford
<richard at underpope.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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...
>
>
> What's really weird is that my keyboard seems to be working fine to a
point. I can Alt+Tab+Fx to get to a terminal and I can use my keyboard to
navigate menus. I can also use non-KDE applications (e.g., LibreOffice)
just fine. It's just with KDE applications that my keyboard doesn't
interact with.

Any thoughts on this, anyone?



-- 
Sláinte,
Richard S. Crawford (richard at underpope.com) http://www.underpope.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/underpope
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/underpope
Google+: http://gplus.to/underpope
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20120814/14486f83/attachment.html>