On Monday 16 February 2009, Joseph T Apuzzo wrote: > I had a problem upgrading to the nVidia last two drivers drops: > 180.22 and 180.29, but 177.x worked just fine. Seems the problem or > I would say good programming skills at nVidia were the cause. > > The problem was that a while back I had installed Envy-ng, which in > turn installs packages that allow for nVidia kernel drivers to be > built. Since the Envy-ng drivers were of the 177.x family > everything worked. Once I tried to use the 180.x set of drivers, > the nVidia build script would "skip" what was installed by package > to avoid screwing up my system.
A similar problem came up two weeks ago on the list. The Evny-ng drivers blacklist the normal ones in order to avoid driver conflicts. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnvyNG > So bottom line, use one or the other. That is if you want the > latest support of OpenGL v3 then you will need to remove all other > nVidia marked packages ( or RPMS or what ever ) from your system so > that there build script makes ALL the code and installs it > correctly. Removing the Envy-ng packages should remove the blacklist entries. Hopefully you can verify that they do. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected]
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