Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

[Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:10:01 +0100
Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:

> Since yesterday update of NVIDIA 346.96-1 I get an error about uvm
> module:
> 
> The module is compiled (dkms):
> 
> $ ls -la /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nv*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11730792 Jan 20
09:08 /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko > -rw-r--r-- 1 root
root   111776 Jan 20
09:08 /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-uvm.ko > > But cannot
be loaded: > 
> $ sudo modprobe nvidia-current-uvm
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_uvm': Invalid argument
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Try # apt-get -f install

For some reason the headers and dkms have not been together on these upgrades.
dkms has had a problem finding the headers to compile the module.

I think # apt-get update will be good now and -f will install what you need. 

pure conjecture of course

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CK