Nvidia driver problems

[O. Sinclair]

On 14/08/2012 18:25, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Richard S. Crawford
> <richard at underpope.com <mailto:richard at underpope.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net
>     <mailto:kassube at gmx.net>> wrote:
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>         Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>          > I'm using Kubuntu 12.04.
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>          > 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
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>         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.
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>     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:
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>     * keyboard isn't working beyond the login screen
>     * window decorations are missing
>     * all of my desktop effects are not working
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>     I guess I'll keep hammering away at this for now...
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> 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