- If you have Nvidia drivers then:
- Go to some temp directory (
~/tmp
for me)
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/nvidia-180-kernel-source_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/nvidia-180-libvdpau_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/nvidia-glx-180_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i nvidia-180-kernel-source_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb nvidia-180-libvdpau_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb nvidia-glx-180_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
- Go to some temp directory (
wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Jaunty and 2.6.30 kernel with Nvidia drivers
I recently upgraded to 2.6.30 on my Jaunty laptop and desktop. Turns out there are some issues with the nvidia drivers that come with Jaunty and the newer 2.6.30 kernel. The following upgrade process worked for me (based on the solution found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/384639/comments/8):
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