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  1. Bug #1068341
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 1068341

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Hans Nieser (hnsr) wrote :

I wanted to also confirm that comment #8 is incorrect and this bug can be experienced with the "Additional Drivers" method of installing the NVIDIA binary driver as well. (As far as I can tell this would affect anyone with an NVIDIA wanting to use the binary drivers, but then I would expect this bug to see a lot more traffic)

I did a clean Ubuntu 12.10 install today and needed to install the NVIDIA binary driver due to nouveau causing GPU lockups shortly after bootup with my GTX580 (worked around with nomodeset).

So directly after installation I applied some updates, rebooted, and used the "Additional Drivers" screen to install the nvidia-current drivers. Rebooted again, but now Unity didn't seem to come up correctly (desktop was visible, but nothing else), and it appeared the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded (not in 'lsmod' output), and wasn't found by doing a modprobe either.

I then finally got it working by installing the linux-headers and reinstalling nvidia-current as was suggested by a previous comment.