Hi Everyone,
I am using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GeForce 9600 GT.
I installed the Cuda driver using nVidia Installer some months ago. Today I tried to update the driver to a non Cuda version: x86-180.22-pkg1 and, after restart, the system could not load the nvidia kernel module. I fix using an appropriate Cuda version of the driver: x86-180.06-pkg1.
Some people here have the same problem every time when installing a non Cuda drivers after a Cuda enabled installation on linux machines.
Question: Is this a simple bug in the installer or is it something that nVidia couldn’t fix?
Thanks
PS: Sorry but I don’t have the X log anymore.
Ubuntu does some really strange and non-standard things with the locations their driver files are stored. If ubuntu doesn’t offer a package with the correct nvidia driver version, your best bet is a tool like envy: [url=“http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html”]http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html[/url]. Note: I’m not an active ubuntu user so I’m not certain that this method still works. All I know is that it is what I had to do last time I played with ubuntu (more than 1 year ago).
Unless you can provide an nvidia-bug-report.log which captures the problem, I’m going to assume that this is more likely an Ubuntu bug.