[ubuntu-x] -nvidia upgrade issues

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 04:50:57PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:08:17PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > Hi Bryce:
> > 
> > I've got a couple of comments i'll echo here
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 16:26, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been looking into some problems people have been reporting
> > > upgrading to Karmic with -nvidia installed.
> > >
> > > One thing I've noticed is aside from whatever issue is occuring with
> > > nvidia, there are bugs elsewhere which are compounding the problems and
> > > leading to some poor user experiences.  A common scenario occurs if for
> > > whatever reason the -nvidia kernel module fails to build in DKMS:
> > >
> > 
> > It would be very good to try to get a sampling of why the kernel modules are
> > failing to build.  Can you try to get people to collect the failed
> > make.log's in these scenarios?
> 
> Bug 450238 adds some further information as to what might be going
> wrong:

Sorry false alarm, this simply appears to be a dupe of a bug you already
fixed in the package a few weeks ago.

> """
> Adding Module to DKMS build system
> + dkms add -m nvidia -v
> 
> Error! Invalid number of arguments passed.
> Usage: add -m <module> -v <module-version>
> 
> The reason for this is, that the script uses a variable $CVERSION that
> is never defined. Adding it manually works:
> 
> dkms add -m nvidia -v 185.18.36
> 
> Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/185.18.36/source ->
>                  /usr/src/nvidia-185.18.36
> 
> DKMS: add Completed.
> """
> 
> Bryce
> 
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