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

[Pybe]

no problem, glad it helped. you may want to put some of your kde specific
items back in as i am running standard ubuntu not kubuntu.

Cheers
James

On 6/18/06, John D. <johnsemail at f2s.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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