On Friday 24 April 2009 01:59:59 walt wrote: > Whenever I have the same problem it's because I've done a 'make clean' or > equivalent in /usr/src/linux, or more likely because a newer version of > the kernel sources has been installed but I haven't yet built the newer > kernel. > > It's possible that both the kernel sources and nvidia-drivers were > updated about the same time, and when that happens the nvidia-drivers > will be compiled immediately whereas the new kernel won't be compiled > until you decide to go do it yourself. (Meanwhile, nvidia-drivers has > crapped out.)
Yes, but those don't apply here. I had, as I said, a current kernel source directory (by which I mean I had compiled the currently running kernel in it) and was installing the latest version of nvidia. I hadn't done anything in the source tree since compiling the kernel, so it should have Just Worked. -- Rgds Peter
