Im using Ubuntu and did apt-cahe search linux-restricted-modules and it shows the 2.6.15-25 as available.<br><br>Which servers are you using in your sources.list?<br><br>James<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/17/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">John D.</b> <<a href="mailto:johnsemail@f2s.com">johnsemail@f2s.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:41, Steven Dobson wrote:<br>> Hi John<br>><br>> Long time, no hear.<br>><br>> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 00:53 +0100, John D. wrote:<br>> > Now running (K)ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper).<br>
> ><br>> > Yesterday, the package installer said there was ?? (quite a few) new<br>> > package upgrades waiting install.<br>> ><br>> > So I used synaptic to install the upgrades - one of which, was a newer
<br>> > kernel version.<br>> ><br>> > I was aware that I'd have to re-install the nvidia driver - which isn't a<br>> > problem as I'd already found instructions how to do that on a debian<br>> > based system.
<br>> ><br>> > The problem is, that it doesn't matter whether I just try to re-install<br>> > or remove and then re-install, it only wants to get the packages for the<br>> > old kernel version.<br>
> ><br>> > Is there anyone who might be able to tell me what I'm doing wrong ?<br>> ><br>> > And yes, I have tried booting into the new kernel and then running<br>> > update/upgrade from CLI and then trying the remove and re-install trick.
<br>><br>> Are you certain that there are nvidia drivers for your version of the<br>> kernel? I don't know (K)ubuntu (Dapper) but it can often be the case<br>> that proprity drivers take a while to be released by the hardware
<br>> manifactures.<br>><br>> Have you removed the old kernel from the system (apt-get remove). The<br>> packaging system may be trying to load updates for that kernel as it is<br>> part of your system just incase you boot to that kernel again. [Make
<br>> sure that the new kernel works very well and is the default before<br>> removing the old one].<br>Well I was wondering if it's something to do with the sources that I have in<br>the sources.list because if I look at the list of available packages in
<br>synaptic it doesn't tell me all of the info, whereas if I do apt-get install<br>for the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-common it gets the packages that seem to<br>match the older kernel i.e. 2.6.15-23-386 rather than 2.6.15-25-386
, even if<br>I only have CLI input available while booted into the newer kernel (can't be<br>bothered to change the driver to vesa in the xorg.conf, it's just as easy to<br>boot into the old kernel).<br><br>The problem is, that when I have 2 kernels, the X server will only start with
<br>the nvidia driver for the one that it's got it installed (compiled ???) for.<br><br>The actual version of the nvidia driver that I have installed is the latest<br>one i.e. shown as the latest one under synaptic as well as at
<a href="http://nvidia.com">nvidia.com</a> and<br>I should have thought that "they" would have released the accompanying<br>packages to go with the updates that "they" released for (K)Ubuntu the other<br>
day.<br><br>As for making the newer kernel version the default, I'm not "au fait" as to<br>how thats done. Yes it does seem to be OK inasfaras I can tell - though only<br>having CLI does limit what I know how to check - somewhat!
<br><br>The old kernel is still in the system though - maybe it's enough to comment it<br>out in the /boot/grub/grub.conf(menu.1st) ?? I'm not sure.<br><br>regards<br><br>John D.<br><br>_______________________________________________
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