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

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Chris Knadle
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