Nvidia driver problems
O. Sinclair
o.sinclair at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 06:35:44 UTC 2012
On 14/08/2012 18:25, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Richard S. Crawford
> <richard at underpope.com <mailto:richard at underpope.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net
> <mailto: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?
>
Did you possibly upgrade to KDE 4.9 from kubuntu backports ppa? Because
when I did I had to do a dist-upgrade to get all packages, normal ap-get
upgrade held back over a 100 packages as I recall it. And that might
cause loads of weird problems
/Sinclair
More information about the kubuntu-users
mailing list