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

[John D.]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 15:35, Pybe wrote:
> Your sources list is basicly the same as mine i think (see attached). Did
> you apt-get update 1st? If not try that then the apt-cache search.
>
> sudo apt-get update && apt-cache search linux-restricted-modules
>
> Gives me:
>
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-386 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on
> 386
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-686 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-k7 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on
> AMD K7
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-25-386 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on
> 386
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-25-686 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-25-k7 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules on
> AMD K7
> linux-restricted-modules-386 - Restricted Linux modules on 386.
> linux-restricted-modules-686 - Restricted Linux modules on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
> linux-restricted-modules-common - Non-free Linux 2.6.15 modules helper
> script
> linux-restricted-modules-k7 - Restricted Linux modules on AMD K7.
>
> HTH
> James
Thanks James, 

Yes it did help (Ha! absolutely bloody marvellous). Obviously one of the 
different sources on the end of the list i.e. the ones that do differ from 
what I had must have had the packages - which one? I don't know.

I just copied my list to sources.list.old and then bunged in the one that you 
attached and did the "sudo apt-get update && apt-cache search 
linux-restricted-modules" and it showed all the various bits - in fact adept 
showed me that there was updates available on the toolbar immediately, so I 
just rebooted into the new kernel and installed the nvidia-glx and 
linux-restricted-modules updates, re-started the session and bingo, a nice 
shiny desktop and a terminal that told me 

:~$ uname -r
2.6.15-25-686
:~$
 
Hoorah!

Again, thanks very much for the direction/assistance. Very much appreciated.

regards

John D.