New kernel won't boot

[Frank McCormick]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:41:12 -0500
Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 12:30 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: 
> > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:48:06 +0000
> > Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 3 March 2011 15:17, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > > >   I took your advice and installed it - it complained that the kernel
> > > > source wasn't installed. Does anyone know the proper name for the
> > > > source for the current kernel ? And how do I get DKMS to re-run after
> > > > it is installed ?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > It shouldn't need the kernel source, just the headers. The DKMS
> > > package pulls them in automatically.
> > 
> >   When I installed it just complained the "kernel source" was 
> > not installed.
> > 
> >   After I found and installed source and headers it compiled the
> > wrong module...(193 something something) so I was no further ahead.
> > 
> > > 
> > > You're not using the nVidia driver from nvidia.com are you?
> > 
> >    I was yes. I guess I should have removed it??
> >   Seems to me even with DKMS this is more complicated than
> > I'd like :)
> 
> It only gets complicated when you move outside the realm of .deb
> packages from the repos and use the vendor supplied package. With
> Fedora, I had to use the nVidia package. Thankfully, we don't with
> Ubuntu. I seem to recall that there is an un-install parameter with the
> nVidia supplied package. If so, you'll want to use that to completely
> remove it. It uses library directories that are different from the
> Ubuntu supplied nVidia package, which can play merry hell with your
> installation. 
> -- 

  Well I go so pi**ed with what was going on, I yanked the Nvidia card
and went back to Intel...with all it's faults! Hell it was only a GE
5200-something so hardly state of the art.



> My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.

  I am beginning to suspect I am guilty of both sins....
despite having run Linux for about 5 years.

   
-- 
Frank <fmccormick at videotron.ca>