intrepid and nvidia

[David Fox]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> I installed linux-restricted-modules -
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/i386/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.26-5-generic/2.6.26-5.11
>
> shouldn't that do it?

Should be enough. But I did it the debian way, and got the nvidia-*
stuff and did the module assistant stuff manually. Worked a treat the
first time I installed Hardy 2 months ago, but didn't seem to work
when I wanted to get the nvidia stuff reinstalled.

I never tried the Envy stuff.

i tried to get it to work by reinstalling kernel-source,
kernel-common, and nvidia-glx for 169.12 (the driver I had before) and
it kept failing one way or another so I decided to bite the bullet and
install 173.09 from nvidia. Of course, I had to have it build a module
that matched the kernel I was running (very important) and the module
built fine.

But I'm at the same stage as you are, it fails with modprobe, so it
won't get inserted on boot. So I don't get right into X and nvidia on
boot, the system goes into lowres mode and after I click on Continue,
I get my console back and can insmod the kernel object.

So, if modprobe fails, can you do:

$ sudo insmod insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ?

That will do the trick over here. Of course, you'll need to substitute
the path of the kernel you're running.


>
> I also tried:
>
> carl at dv67:~$ sudo modprobe nvidia
> [sudo] password for carl:
> FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia
>
> any idea where I can see more details?
>
> Carl K
>
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