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* Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@(protected)]:
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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).
> >
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> 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.
Do you have the -devel-latest package installed?
y