Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #710744
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 710744

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Bartek Celary (karaphka) wrote :

BTW, for anyone who is interested in getting this to work:

(quoting solution from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741754)

"[The] problem is that you have the nvidia driver installed as a deb package but not the driver itself, for which you need the kernel headers.

Install the package kernel-headers-blabla corresponding to your current kernel (see uname -a). Then do install --reinstall of the nvidia package or install --reinstall of the linux kernel - this will force the creation of the nvidia kernel module. Reboot.

Those commands:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic-pae"