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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 package

Package update reverted from nvidia 177.80 back to 169.12

Bug #302881 reported by stormreaver
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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When the Kubuntu adept-notifier icon appeared with new software updates yesterday (Nov. 26, 2008), I clicked it and went through the normal software update procedure. When I rebooted this morning after installing extra RAM, I found that the nvidia driver had reverted from 177.80 back to the extraordinarily buggy 169.12. Looking through Adept's package listing, there is no longer any mention of version 177.80 (which is the only version that works well with KDE4). I have not installed an nvidia driver on Kubuntu from any source other than the official repositories.

Afterwards, I installed a server kernel to take full advantage of my 8GB of RAM. I have since rebooted back into the non-server version of the kernel, and had the same results. Using the 168.12 driver causes spontaneous video death and extreme video corruption.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-server:
  Installed: 2.6.24.13-19.45
  Candidate: 2.6.24.13-19.45
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.24.13-19.45 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected the new nvidia driver update to install the newest nvidia driver.

Instead, the update reverted back to an old, highly unstable nvidia driver.

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stormreaver (kubuntu-tonyobryan) wrote :

I decided to upgrade this computer to Intrepid as I've done for all my other computers, and I noticed that the upgrade procedure mentions new nvidia 177 packages are going to be installed. This would coincide with my other computers, so I think this may be the best way to fix the problem. I'll come back after the upgrade, and report whether this fixes the problem.

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

177.80 is available only in Intrepid. How did you manage to install it in Hardy?

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stormreaver (kubuntu-tonyobryan) wrote :

If it's only available in Intrepid, then I must have remembered wrong. I have a number of Kubuntu systems, most on Intrepid but a couple still on Hardy, and I was reasonably sure that I seen 177.80 on this Hardy machine. But given what you've said, I must have mixed this up with a different machine.

Thanks for the response, and go ahead and mark this as invalid. That said, the video still suddenly became terribly unstable after the last system update. If I boot into 2.6.24-19 using the 169.12 driver, it becomes stable. If I boot into 2.6.27-9 using the 169.12 driver, the video gets corrupt in less than a minute, then loses its signal to the monitor, and the machine becomes unresponsive to the keyboard until xorg eventually crashes. I must have put that together with my faulty recollection about where I have the 177.80 driver, and assumed I used to have it on this machine.

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stormreaver (kubuntu-tonyobryan) wrote :

Just to be complete: upgrading to Intrepid got the 177.80 driver, as expected. All of my video problems are gone on kernel 2.6.24-19-server, but X11 won't load the nVidia kernel module for 2.6.27-9-server. I'll just use 2.6.24-19-server. Even the screen problems I had with UT-2004 are gone with the 177.80 driver.

Sorry for the bad bug report.

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

You will have to install the linux-headers for your new kernel. Type:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server

and boot into the new kernel.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24:
status: New → Invalid
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