Comment 19 for bug 136838

Hello,

I don´t know whether to reopen this bug or file a new one. The problem persists and even with the workarounds posted here I wasn´t able to get my 8200 chipset running.

I´m using 2.6.24-21-generic, before with an Geforce4 chip that needed the legacy driver. On upgrade, Ubuntu told me it wants to use new proprietary drivers. I agreed and got 169.xx installed.

However, the 8200 chipset needs the 177.xx version instead. So I downloaded the package from nvidia and manually installed the actual driver version.

Now I can manually do an "insmod /path/to/module/nvidia.ko" and then start X. This is the only way it works.

However, automatic module loading fails. First, when using "modprobe nvidia" the 169.xx module was used. Funny thing, within /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic path there is no other module than my own compiled nvidia.ko. Hmm, maybe initramfs?

Then I read something about restricted-modules-manager. So I added nvidia, nvidia_new to /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common and did update-initramfs.

But this doesn´t lead to a working system. Now "modprobe nvidia" fails with "error installing module nvidia" with no other comment or error message. modprobe -l nvidia however points me to the correct module?!

I think some of the autoloader or restricted-modules-manager settings left behind, but I can´t find it. Meanwhile I removed linux-restricted-modules, but no luck.

Sebastian