Re: Nvidia drivers
Hi,
Found the problem, forgotten to install the nvidia-kernel-dkms package.
Very happy all work great now and all of the CUDA stuff I installed also
works!
Thanks for your comments,
Jim
On 12/09/11 14:05, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them
> working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get
> CUDA to work.
>
> I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove
> all of the packages using apt, and them used
> m-a prepare
> m-a auto-install nvidia
>
> and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't
> find the modules.
>
> ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a
> Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko'
> /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
>
> lsmod shows an nvidia module
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia
> nvidia 10852808 0
> i2c_core 25424 2 i2c_i801,nvidia
>
> But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different
> from each other.
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40
> /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
>
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l
> /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12 2010
> /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
>
> Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more
> information gratefully received.
>
> Thanks,
> James
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