Cant says that nvidia cant build with actual kernel as the report title
says, but my issues are so close:
it's on Precise i386 with 8500gt & 290 driver from edgers ppa:
oem@oem-desktop:~$ dpkg-query -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.36
Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 290.10-0ubuntu1~xedgers~precise1
NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and
VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 290.06-0ubuntu1~xedgers~precise1
Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
The problem is:
jockey-gtk dont find driver at all (empty list)
purging then reinstalling nvidia*/jockey* dont show warning/error during
installation.
but /var/log/jockey.log warn first with:
Could not open DriverDB cache
/var/cache/jockey/driverdb-OpenPrintingDriverDB.cache: [Errno 2] No such file
or directory: '/var/cache/jockey/driverdb-OpenPrintingDriverDB.cache'
so i've created an empty /var/cache/jockey/driverdb-
OpenPrintingDriverDB.cache, then it seems to help (see the log attached)
Trying to find how jockey-gtk works, i'm surprised to find:
- /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia:
# the nvidia modules have catch-all modaliases, which is wrong; kill
# them off here, and use the linux-restricted-modules overrides files
# instead (which are evaluated later than this file)
reset nvidia
reset nvidia_new
reset nvidia_legacy
The first thing to note is: linux-restricted-modules has been removed from
archives since kernel 2.6.24 (ubuntuupdates: tim Gardner) and is only found for
old distro via ppa (canonical-kernel-team, ...). So what's going on with this
outdated settings ?
- some weaks ago jockey-gtk was having nvidia-current "activated & in use" but
proposing oldish drivers (173, current-update) as dh-modaliases was not
applied. Now its even worst as it dont find driver at all.
This actual missing "linux-restricted-modules" needs jockey/nvidia/dh-
modaliases to be cleaned and updated.
** Attachment added: "linux-restricted-modules issues (without/with/without
after rebboot)"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/576648/+attachment/2650393/+files/jockey.log
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package nvidia-* failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-* kernel module
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