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nvidia-common package

  1. Bug #467490
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 467490

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Ted Parvu (ted-parvu) wrote : Re: nvidia drivers don't work

OK, I have done a little more digging into this. It seems that the problem lies in the /sbin/lrm-video script.

The script call modeprobe with a "-Q" option which is invalid.

if [ -e /etc/default/envy-dkms ]; then
      modprobe --ignore-install -Qb $@ $XORG
    else
      modprobe --ignore-install -Qb $@ $MODULE
    fi

Commenting out the line in /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video as far as I can figure, tells modeprobe not to call the lrm-video script and just loads the nvidia module into the kernel and all works.

As for the sound issue I think something must have gotten uninstalled when I was installing the envyng-core package or something else. I installed the linux-backports-modules-* packages and something in one of those got my sound working again.