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Comment 19 for bug 424927

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Darxus (darxus) wrote : Re: [needs-packaging] include Brain fuck Scheduler

I got the nvidia module to load by rebooting into the new bfs patched kernel and manually rebuilding the module via dkms:

sudo dkms remove -m nvidia -v 185.18.36 -k 2.6.31-12-generic
sudo dkms build -m nvidia -v 185.18.36 -k 2.6.31-12-generic
sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v 185.18.36 -k 2.6.31-12-generic

I wonder if this is a dkms bug. But it might be reasonable to require an ABI bump after such patching for this to work. Although a better failure mode would be good.

I'm trying an ABI bump.

When booting into the bfs patched kernel, I recommend selecting the recovery mode to avoid the perpetual flickering uselessness (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/431166">LP: #431166</a>) with which you are currently presented when your video driver fails to load. Select the option to drop to a root shell, and then run "telinit 3" to get into a more usable multi-user state.