* Anssi Hannula <anssi@(protected)]:
> Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
> > * 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).
> >>>
> >> 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
>
> Maybe kernel-foo-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-latest and

I think installing -latest by default is enough, if it is missing the user
must have removed it.


> kernel-foo-devel-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-devel-latest?

dkms suggests kernel-devel-latest, shouldn't it be enough?