[Sussex] Installing nvidia driver after new kernel - (K)Ubuntu ???

[Pybe]

Im using Ubuntu and did apt-cahe search linux-restricted-modules and it
shows the 2.6.15-25 as available.

Which servers are you using in your sources.list?

James

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