Scott, I tried the same things and got more or less the same result. The older drivers compile, but the machine crashes early in boot. If I remember correctly, this was the case all the way up to 364. Anything above, and I tried all the way up to 375, and it won't compile. I suspect the older drivers crash the system on boot because of the newer kernel on 16.04, which is 4.4 series while nvidia drivers version 364 lists kernel 4.1 and below in its support list. It is a good question why one compiles and another does not. This is one of the reasons why I circle around the notion that something did not get properly updated in the upgrade process build environment wise as it seems the pieces are there for an older driver to compile, but not for the newer one.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643345 Title: nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1: nvidia-367 kernel module failed to build [Makefile:81: recipe for target 'modules' failed] Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The default selected nvidia driver 367 does not work in Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. Hangs on build. Ran killall make in order to get updates to complete. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: nvidia-367 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 DKMSKernelVersion: 4.4.0-45-generic Date: Sun Nov 20 08:45:49 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-28 (784 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) PackageVersion: 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1 apt 1.2.15 SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 Title: nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1: nvidia-367 kernel module failed to build UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-10-20 (31 days ago) modified.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.nvidia-367_hybrid.conf: [deleted] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-367/+bug/1643345/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
