linux-restricted-modules question - nvidia driver problem
Hello,
Sorry Linux is not my best skill. I have NVIDIA driver problem (temporarily solved). Before reporting a new bug related to kernel upgrade and legacy drivers, I want to be sure that my problem is not related to this bug report:
Bug #84348 in linux-meta (Ubuntu): “Kernel upgrades need to check for proprietary drivers and upgrade them too if present”
My current configuration
Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-18-generic
GNOME 2.22.2
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
graphic card is NVIDIA Asus Extreme N7300GT
legacy NVIDIA driver NVIDIA-
(cannot tell real driver specs because I could
not re-install it properly)
My graphic card was never well supported by the Ubuntu installation, so I was forced to install a legacy driver.
(not that I like it, but I cannot work 800 x 600 at a 50 hz rate when I need 75 !!!)
At each kernel upgrade Ubuntu,
- 2.6.20.15-generic
- 2.6.20.16-generic
- 2.6.24.18-generic
... I have the same problems: driver installation disappears, my screen resolution goes down to 800 x 600 with 50 hz (should be 75). Wen I try to launch the legacy program for NVIDIA settings, following error is displayed:
"You don't seem to be using NVIDIA driver..."
If I try to reinstall the NVIDIA driver, I get following message:
*** Linux kernel source not configured - missing config.h
Then I have to go though a long process of
- creating deprecated config.h,
- defining ln -s linux-headers-
- sudo apt-get install linux-headers
- and so on.
It needs at least 50 reboots, compiling, hours on the internet to find a solution, and I never really found out what finally was to be done because if finally it somewhat succeeds, I don't know exactly what did have any effect and what was not necessary. (I am not Linux expert, only end-user)
Now I finally have succeeded to have a graphic correct resolution, but the legacy menu is still missing, so I suppose that I don't have graphic acceleration, though I don't really need to because I have dual boot (windows or Ubuntu), and when I want a correct graphic definition I go on Windows. But don't you think it's a pity?
If I search launchpad for bug reports, I find out plenty of references to linux-restricte
Thank you very much for giving me a response to these questions.
"ero"
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