Comment 16 for bug 137432

I just finished upgrading my kernel to 2.6.22.11.12 and I could not get nvidia to load no matter what I did. I tried depmod like before, and it didn't work. I then did:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-glx
$ sudo modprobe nvidia

to no avail. Just to be sure, I tried depmod again, which resulted in the same error as before.

I then booted into the 2.6.22.10 kernel and the nvidia module loaded fine, without the need for depmod:
$ uname -a
Linux atlas 2.6.22-10-386 #1 Wed Aug 22 07:43:24 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lsmod | grep nv
nvidia 4714036 22
i2c_core 25104 1 nvidia
agpgart 33584 2 nvidia,intel_agp

$ dmesg | grep -i nvidia
[ 53.241245] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 53.524608] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9639 Mon Apr 16 20:20:06 PDT 2007

$ dpkg -l nvidia-glx | grep ^ii
ii nvidia-glx 1:1.0.9639+2.6.22.3-11.3 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver

So it seems that the nvidia-glx works properly for the -10 kernel, but not the -11.