After recent upgrade, nVidia driver does not load
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
After the recent upgrades, which might include the Xorg 1.9 upgrade, or else a kernel upgrade, my system rebooted and the display came not back, i.e. gdm didn't start.
The message was:
[ 1610.174] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
[ 1610.174] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
[ 1610.174] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 1610.174] (II) Unloading /usr/lib/
[ 1610.174] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
After googling I found that removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf would help. And indeed it does, as the nVidia driver is not loaded anymore. After more googling I got a hint that getting the latest nVidia might help as this was due to X 1.9.0. Ubuntu delivers 260.19.06-0ubuntu1, but the latest nVidia drivers are NVIDIA-
And indeed, that solved the issue. I'm now running my own nVidia drivers.
| berend (berenddeboer) wrote | #1 |
| berend (berenddeboer) wrote | #2 |
| berend (berenddeboer) wrote | #3 |
| affects: | ubuntu → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
I have no clue where to add for what version, so everything else goes here then:
I'm running 2.6.35-
One more, before I could recompile nVidia, I had to install linux-headers-