Nvidia driver problems

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:35 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
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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:
>>
>>         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
>

Hi Sinclair,

I'm not exactly sure what happened. But I did a reinstall of
kubuntu-desktop, and that fixed my problems.


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