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nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package

  1. Bug #1311104
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1311104

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Simon Lambourn (simon-lambourn-o) wrote : Re: [Bug 1311104] Re: nvidia-331 331.38-0ubuntu7: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build [macros.h:1:2: error: #error INIT_WORK() conftest failed!]

Hi Max,

Thanks for the email.
I did check and my default GCC is set to 4.8, so that wasn't the problem.
I can't install from the NVIDIA website or from the repos. Both fail
with a compilation error - an unknown function.

Simon

On 10/06/14 13:52, Max Mustermann wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is related to this bug but I was unable to install nvidia drivers because my default compiler was set to an older version as default (gcc 4.4). Setting the default back to 4.8 solved the problem and I was able to install the drivers.
> I found this bug report because I got a similar error message when trying to manually install the proprietary nvidia drivers. When installing from the repos I didn't get an error message at all.
>