On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 04:50:57PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:08:17PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote: > > Hi Bryce: > > > > I've got a couple of comments i'll echo here > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 16:26, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've been looking into some problems people have been reporting > > > upgrading to Karmic with -nvidia installed. > > > > > > One thing I've noticed is aside from whatever issue is occuring with > > > nvidia, there are bugs elsewhere which are compounding the problems and > > > leading to some poor user experiences. A common scenario occurs if for > > > whatever reason the -nvidia kernel module fails to build in DKMS: > > > > > > > It would be very good to try to get a sampling of why the kernel modules are > > failing to build. Can you try to get people to collect the failed > > make.log's in these scenarios? > > Bug 450238 adds some further information as to what might be going > wrong:
Sorry false alarm, this simply appears to be a dupe of a bug you already fixed in the package a few weeks ago. > """ > Adding Module to DKMS build system > + dkms add -m nvidia -v > > Error! Invalid number of arguments passed. > Usage: add -m <module> -v <module-version> > > The reason for this is, that the script uses a variable $CVERSION that > is never defined. Adding it manually works: > > dkms add -m nvidia -v 185.18.36 > > Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/185.18.36/source -> > /usr/src/nvidia-185.18.36 > > DKMS: add Completed. > """ > > Bryce > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
