where did my 2nd screen go?

[Alan McKay]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Werner Schram <wrschram at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is more of a reply to all five of you messages, but I'm not going
> to quote all of them. Summarized: You tried to install the nvidia 190
> driver (from the nvidia site), but now your 2nd monitor isn't recognized
> anymore and it looks like the 185 driver is still loading. Am I correct
> at that?

Yes.  I loaded 185 via "envyng", then I discovered the 190 on the website.
So I used envy to uninstall 185, and then manually installed 190 with
the download
from the webiste

> According to this, your module is installed in for the 2.6.31-14 kernel.
> Is this the kernel you are currently running? Because the latest is
> 2.6.31-15. Maybe this is related to your problem?

amckay at alan-ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux alan-ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01
UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> could you inventorize which nvidia modules are currently at your
> machine? Do this by running the following commands in a terminal:
>
> updatedb
> locate nvidia.ko

I normally prefer find to locate, but just because you asked :-)
root at alan-ubuntu:~# locate nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/185.18.36/2.6.31-14-generic/x86_64/module/nvidia.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/185.18.36/build/.nvidia.ko.cmd
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/185.18.36/build/nvidia.ko

Danke Werner!

cheers,
-Alan

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