Ubuntu
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22 package

  1. Bug #145112
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 145112

Revision history for this message
Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote : Re: Random NVidia Proprietary Driver Lynches / Lock-Ups

Just to clarify, you _will_ get an error with the NVidia module trying to load thanks to some funky garbage that Ubuntu has stuck into the modprobe script. The new modprobe will attempt to use lrm-video to launch the NVidia module. This of course, won't work as lrm-video is part of the restricted modules package.

To get around this, the fix is a relatively simple one:

Edit /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video and comment out the 'nvidia' line

#install nvidia /sbin/lrm-video nvidia $CMDLINE_OPTS

This will enable the nvidia module to properly load.

It is a lot of hassle, and I suppose we can thank the proprietary garbage drivers of NVidia -- as this bug would likely have been fixed already had the source and documentation been open.