Hello André.
On Fr, 2010-08-06 at 23:18 +0200, André Bergner wrote: > I'm trying to update my Nvidia drivers from the 195-version to the new > 256-version with the janitor-script. > The script was running fine up the point where it wants to install the > nvidia-driver. download worked fine but then I get the error message > > > mkdir: cannot create directory > `/usr/share/sony-laptop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.44.run/': File exists > > > > The script is trying to create a directory with the same name as the > file it just downloaded. I absoluty don't understand why this happens. > I cannot locate the line in the script where it tries to crete that > directory. I believe it happens somewhere in the function > > create_nvsetupfile(). But this function is crazy, I do not understand > at all what is happening there. > No. It has nothing to do with that function. > > The old driver files had the ending -pkg0 . I don't no if the script > might be confused by that. > That was exactly the problem. Nvidia changed the naming convention for the driver files since 256.25 as you can see here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2255561 I just did not have the time to change that earlier (you know, I do this just for fun!) but now I did. Simply rerun the janitor; it wil offer you to update itself. I hope it works now, If not, please run the script in debug mode: sudo /usr/local/bin/sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor -vx and send me the tracefile which will be referenced at the end of the script > > Can anybody help me, please. > I need my computer working very soon. I'm leaving for some conference > in two days. need help urgenly. I'm very sorry to be too late in this case. Btw: I use the nvidia driver from distribution (simply install with the janitor script after first completely removal of all nvidia drivers). Since Lucid the driver is handled different (nvidia-current) and is almost up to date so no more need to take the files from the nvidia download server. But since I am running maverick, i cannot exactly test how it work in your case.. Regards, Raphael -- Raphael Gradenwitz *** GnuPG-FP: 3FEC B9A0 E784 F9B9 8AFA ECD3 EBE1 4E73 B309 66B4 ***
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