Nvidia driver unfunctional in oneiric since 2011-07-17

[Philip Muškovac]

Filing this by hand since the hook is broken (bug 811700 - there apport did work, so get my hardware info from there).

Since rebooting today the nvidia driver stopped working.
Linux yofel-T510 3.0.0-5-generic #6-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 12 05:21:50 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

dkms status:
nvidia-current, 275.09.07, 3.0.0-4-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 275.09.07, 3.0.0-5-generic, x86_64: installed
tp-smapi, 0.40, 3.0.0-4-generic, x86_64: installed
tp-smapi, 0.40, 3.0.0-5-generic, x86_64: installed
tp-smapi, 0.40, 3.0-1-generic, x86_64: installed
tp-smapi, 0.40, 3.0-2-generic, x86_64: installed
tp-smapi, 0.40, 3.0-3-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0.0-4-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0.0-5-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0-2-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0-3-generic, x86_64: installed

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Trying to load the module by hand, 'modprobe nvidia' tells me 'No such module' and 'modprobe nvidia-current' ends with 'No such device'.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

I tried going back to 3.0.0-4 where the driver worked fine, but it doesn't work there anymore either.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Ok, the problem seems to be that nouveau gets loaded even though it's blacklisted. Seems like it somehow found it's way into the initrd image.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Ok, the problem seems to be that nouveau gets loaded even though it's blacklisted. Seems like it somehow found it's way into the initrd image.

sudo rm /lib/modules/3.0.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
sudo update-initramfs -k $(uname -r) -u
sudo shutdown -r now

and the nvidia driver works again, but that's not much of a workaround...

Also, someone please reassign this bug to whatever broke this.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 810647, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.