intrepid and nvidia

David Fox dfox94085 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 17:06:47 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> 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

It could be a packaging bug. Wajig tells me that file is provided by
the corresponding linux-image package, not by nvidia or
restricted-modules or what have you.

On my system, nvidiafb is not insmoded or loaded. I never did it that way.




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