Kubuntu 12.10 Nvidia drivers

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 10:56:30 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 10:49:05 Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012 22:44:48 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > > > Doesn't it give you a button to enable it? Try removing and
> > > > re-installing.
> > > 
> > > sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings libvdpau1
> > > linux-headers-generic
> > 
> > All of those packages are at the current version.
> > 
> > > jockey-kde has never been reliable for me.
> > 
> > It has worked in the past, but broke in 11.10, got fixed in 12.04 and is
> > now broken again.
> 
> OK Imissed the start of this thread. What makes you think it isn't working?

Jockey is saying that:
kmod:nvidia_current_updates - nvidia_current_updates (Proprietary, Enabled, 
Not in use)

> Try cat /proc/interrupts

16: 4101 1241079 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb5, firewire_ohci, 
snd_hda_intel, nvidia


> If one of the interrupts has 'nvidia' next to it, then it is running.
> What happens if you type
> 'modinfo nvidia-current'?

modinfo nvidia-current-updates
filename: /lib/modules/3.5.0-18-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia_current_updates.ko
alias:          char-major-195-*
version:        304.51
supported:      external
license:        NVIDIA