{"id":5,"date":"2011-03-18T01:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T01:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/?p=5"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:49:56","slug":"ubuntu-10-10-upgrade-nvidia-driver-stops-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/2011\/ubuntu-10-10-upgrade-nvidia-driver-stops-working\/","title":{"rendered":"ubuntu 10.10 upgrade nvidia driver stops working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently updated a machine from ubuntu 10.04 to ubuntu 10.10. After reboot the nvidia driver wouldn't load and \/var\/log\/Xorg.0.log contains:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">[ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your<\/span>\n[ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (EE) NVIDIA: &nbsp; &nbsp; system's kernel log for additional error messages.\n[ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (II) UnloadModule: \"nvidia\"\n[ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (II) Unloading \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/extra-modules\/nvidia_drv.so\n[ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (EE) Failed to load module \"nvidia\" (module-specific error, 0)\n[ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (EE) No drivers available.<\/pre>\n<div>The solution was to run<\/div>\n<pre>$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-current<\/pre>\n<div>which caused nvidia modules to be rebuilt. This showed me I was missing source for the running kernel version, so I then installed nvidia-185-kernel-source which was enough to get it back on its feet.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently updated a machine from ubuntu 10.04 to ubuntu 10.10. After reboot the nvidia driver wouldn't load and \/var\/log\/Xorg.0.log contains: [ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your [ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (EE) NVIDIA: &nbsp; &nbsp; system's kernel log for additional error messages. [ &nbsp; &nbsp;25.820] (II) UnloadModule: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}