NVidia driver failure on new system

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:22:59PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> Xorg.log shows:
> 
> 
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
> (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> So it's the same old problem...
> 
> This is what I have installed:
> 
> joehill at rebelone:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
> libgl1-nvidia-alternatives install
> libgl1-nvidia-glx install
> libglx-nvidia-alternatives install
> nvidia-glx install
> nvidia-installer-cleanup install
> nvidia-kernel-common install
> nvidia-kernel-dkms install
> nvidia-settings install
> nvidia-support install
> nvidia-vdpau-driver install
> nvidia-xconfig install
> 
> Then I realized I did not have nvidia-kernel-source, so I installed that.
> Now...do I need to manually build the module now? Dammit, why can I never
> get this process right?

nvidia-kernel-dkms is better.  It does it automatically.  You do have
to be sure to have the linux-headers matching your kernel installed.
Installing linux-headers-2.6-CPUTYPE takes care of that on upgrades.

-- 
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists