Public bug reported:
Jockey would fail silently when I tried to enable nvidia drivers. I will try to
attach the video I made of this.
What ultimately succeeded was installing the package "linux-headers-generic"
and reinstalling "nvidia-177-kernel-source,"
a solution found on this page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6026389
I'm not sure why jockey couldn't install the linux-headers, or why they were
not present in the first place.
I hope this helps.
~$ uname -a
Linux big-ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64
GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
$ apt-cache policy jockey-common
jockey-common:
Installed: 0.5~beta3-0ubuntu6
Candidate: 0.5~beta3-0ubuntu6
Version table:
*** 0.5~beta3-0ubuntu6 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.5~beta3-0ubuntu5 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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jockey can't install nvidia drivers, linux-headers at fault
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299723
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