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Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Steve Morris wrote:
>> After the last cooker update I found through update-alternatives that
>> the opengl interface was not using the nvidia opengl drivers. I have
>> used update-alternatives to set the opengl drivers back to nvidias. I
>> also found that xorg.conf had the video driver set to nv instead of
>> nvidia, which I have now changed back. Why is this occurring as this is
>> not the first time this has occurred, particularly when the video driver
>> version has not changed during the update?
>
> This happens when you boot a kernel that does not have the proprietary
> nvidia module installed (and/or dkms couldn't build it).
>
On a Cooker-unrelated note - this has happened on 2008.1 too now with
the recent kernel update, because the -devel packages were not updated
with the kernel and dkms couldn't build the module.
Perhaps someone should have a look at it?
Regards,
Jan
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