[RESOLVED] Re: Nvidia driver problems

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Richard S. Crawford
<richard at underpope.com>wrote:

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


I ended up doing:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop

Which worked.


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