intrepid and nvidia

[Carl Karsten]

David Fox wrote:
> 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 think we are getting closer to figuring out why it doesn't 'just work'

carl at dv67:~$ sudo insmod 
/lib/modules/2.6.26-5-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
insmod: error inserting 
'/lib/modules/2.6.26-5-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko': -1 
Unknown symbol in module
carl at dv67:~$ uname -a
Linux dv67 2.6.26-5-generic #1 SMP Sat Jul 26 21:35:46 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[  767.655171] nvidiafb: Unknown symbol fb_ddc_read
[  767.655279] nvidiafb: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_add_bus
[  767.655537] nvidiafb: Unknown symbol save_vga
[  767.655640] nvidiafb: Unknown symbol i2c_del_adapter
[  767.655715] nvidiafb: Unknown symbol restore_vga

kernel team goof something?

> 
>> 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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