On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 01:15 +0200, Jan Ciger wrote:
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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.
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> Perhaps someone should have a look at it?

On stable releases, we don't use the source DKMS packages by default, we
use binary packages which are updated each time the kernel is. I know
this has been working fine for 2008 Spring so far, because if it hadn't
been, my forums would be inundated with people complaining. :) If you
would prefer to use the source DKMS packages, you can remove the binary
one and make sure you install kernel-foo-devel-latest.
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adamw