After recent upgrade, nVidia driver does not load

[berend]

After the recent upgrades, which might include the Xorg 1.9 upgrade, or else a kernel upgrade, my system rebooted and the display came not back, i.e. gdm didn't start.

The message was:

[ 1610.174] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
[ 1610.174] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
[ 1610.174] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 1610.174] (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 1610.174] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)

After googling I found that removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf would help. And indeed it does, as the nVidia driver is not loaded anymore. After more googling I got a hint that getting the latest nVidia might help as this was due to X 1.9.0. Ubuntu delivers 260.19.06-0ubuntu1, but the latest nVidia drivers are NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.21.run.

And indeed, that solved the issue. I'm now running my own nVidia drivers.

[berend (berenddeboer)]

I have no clue where to add for what version, so everything else goes here then:

I'm running 2.6.35-24-generic-pae.

One more, before I could recompile nVidia, I had to install linux-headers-2.6.35-24-generic-pae. But it could be that I had completely inadvertedly removed this, not sure.

[berend (berenddeboer)]

Forgot: this is Ubuntu 10.10.