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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22 package

  1. Bug #138933
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 138933

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jdm64 (jdm64) wrote : Re: Broken Nvidia driver after upgrade to Gusty (7.10)

Xorg still works with the nv driver.

I did notice _very_ interesting lines in dmesg when using the nvidia driver:

[ 43.196323] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 43.270935] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 GPU installed in this system is
[ 43.270941] NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers. Please
[ 43.270944] NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
[ 43.270946] NVRM: information. The 100.14.11 NVIDIA driver will ignore
[ 43.270949] NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe...
[ 43.270959] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
[ 43.473389] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[ 43.769181] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 43.769905] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-7185 Mon Apr 2 18:29:54 PDT 2007
...
[ 83.517925] NVRM: RM/client version mismatch!!
[ 83.517933] NVRM: aborting to avoid catastrophe!
[ 85.057583] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 87.641704] NVRM: RM/client version mismatch!!
[ 87.641712] NVRM: aborting to avoid catastrophe!
[ 91.758352] NVRM: RM/client version mismatch!!
[ 91.758361] NVRM: aborting to avoid catastrophe!

It seems like nvidia-glx-new is installed, but it isn't! Did somebody miss-package nvidia-glx with the nvidia-glx-new drivers? nvidia-glx should have the 1.0-96xx drivers not the 100.14.11 drivers!

justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-glx is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx-new
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-glx-new is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx-legacy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-glx-legacy is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.