I had the same problem with dkms being unable to build my nvidia driver. I found that the problem for me was the kernel-headers package.
I am running 2.6.25-2-386. When I installed the linux- headers-2.6.25-2-386 package it created the proper /usr/src/linux- headers-2.6.25-2-386 directory tree. That directory has number of symlinks, for example: drivers -> ../linux-headers-2.6.25-2/drivers However, my OS did not have a /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.25-2. Instead I have a /usr/src/linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2. Thus every reference in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.25-2-386 was pointing to nowhere. I resolved this manually by creating a symlink /usr/src/linux- headers-2.6.25-2 -> /usr/src/linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-2 and this fixed my problem. DKMS will now properly build the nvidia (and who knows what other) driver and I am back up and running. I don't know if this is an ubuntu issue or a package maintainer issue or a kernel issue. My manual fix is probably not the right thing to do, but I had to get back up and working. YMMV -- Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3 stops Nvidia driver working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252160 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
