Add hook scripts to be run by nvidia-installer

[Aaron Plattner]

Sorry this didn't make it into 180.22, Alberto. I finally got around to implementing the hook script code we talked about, and the next round of releases will include it. Here's the relevant new section in the manpage:

DISTRIBUTION HOOK SCRIPTS
       Because the NVIDIA installer may interact badly with distribution packages that contain the NVIDIA driver,
       nvidia-installer provides a mechanism for the distribution to handle manual installation of the driver. If they
       exist, nvidia-installer will run the following scripts:
              · /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install
              · /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-uninstall
              · /usr/lib/nvidia/post-uninstall
              · /usr/lib/nvidia/post-install
              · /usr/lib/nvidia/failed-install
       Note that if installation of a new driver requires uninstallation of a previously installed driver, the pre- and
       post-uninstall scripts will be called after the pre-install script. If the install fails, the installer will exe‐
       cute /usr/lib/nvidia/failed-install instead of /usr/lib/nvidia/post-install. These scripts should not require user
       interaction.

       Use the --no-distro-scripts option to disable execution of these scripts.

I don't know if nvidia-graphics-drivers-* is really the right place for these scripts. It might be necessary to add a new package, depending on what you want them to do.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi aplattner,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

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[Aaron Plattner (aplattner)]

Dear Bryce Harrington's automated script: This is a wishlist bug, but I can't change the importance because I'm not a project maintainer or a bug supervisor. Changing status back to New.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Thanks for your work Aaron. Maybe I could add these scripts to my "nvidia-common" package so as to keep things in one place.

I look forward to seeing this implemented in the next release of the installer.

[Aaron Plattner (aplattner)]

Attached is a patch against the 180.22 tag from git://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/nvidia-installer/ (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/nvidia-installer/)

You can test it by extracting the .run file with the -x option, changing to the unpacked directory, replacing the nvidia-installer with the one you built, and then running it as ./nvidia-installer

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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[Aaron Plattner (aplattner)]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:51:53PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> c. If your bug still remains, please simply reply to this email
> indicating so.

This is an enhancement request for Ubuntu to use these hooks to allow
.run packages and dpkgs to interact correctly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-common - 0.2.17

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nvidia-common (0.2.17) lucid; urgency=low

  * setup.py:
    - Add pre-inst hook for the NVIDIA installer as
      the latter may interact badly with the Ubuntu
      packages(LP: #317703).
  * NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py:
    - Handle driver flavours which have strings (instead
      of integers in their name).
  * NvidiaDetector/alternatives.py:
    - Alternatives class to get the list of alternatives
      and to get and set the alternative in use.
  * nvidia-common:
    - ${LATEST} should have quotation marks (LP: #505855).
 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:13:11 +0100