Recent updates and Nvidia driver screwed

Orion

Just a heads up for anyone else who may have a problem.

Last night I got a notification that Ubuntu updates were available so I blindly just hit the install updates button as usual. All installed fine apart from 3 samba ones which gave a 403 when trying to download. Anyway working fine and shut down to go to bed. Started up the PC this morning and X wouldn't load!

I'm pretty new to *nix so it took me a while (and some help in #ubuntu-ie and a friend) but it seems the updates were the linux-restricted-modules and somehow they screwed up the nvidia driver.

Luckily I'd used Envy to install the drivers originally so from the console "envy -t" to reinstall the Nvidia driver (after letting it clean up the existing ones) and all is good again.

Just wanted to let people know in case the same thing happens to anyone else.

Tobias Greeshman

Macros82 wrote:

I'm pretty new to *nix so it took me a while (and some help in #ubuntu-ie and a friend) but it seems the updates were the linux-restricted-modules and somehow they screwed up the nvidia driver

You could of just ran the following command in one of your virtual terminals:
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

This will just reconfigure x to the default configuration.

That aside, If you didn't want to do this you could have always edited the current xorg config file and removed the reference to the restricted driver, and used the opensource ones (I think it was called "nv" or something like that). Then at a later date reinstalled the new version properly, using apt-get, or whatever you prefer.

Orion

Tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg - no joy cos of the driver being nerfed. And a mfg provided driver shouldn't be ****ed with a kernel update regardless of anything.