[Novalug] Ubuntu problems (2)

[donjr]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:49 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> > Two complaints about ubuntu
> > (1) Why do my nvidia drivers go away every time I upgrade - then I need
> > to reinstall them.
> >

> >   
> These aren't specifically Ubuntu problems.  Your nvidia drivers only go 
> away when you upgrade the kernel because they're not open source.  At 
> least I think the driver named "nvidia" isn't open source.  There's 
> another driver "nv" that's open that you could use, but it doesn't take 
> advantage of the hardware acceleration, and it's quite noticable.

The problem with the nvidia driver, at least with edge, is the way the
package linux-restricted-modules is setup.

First it (lrm-manger), until modified, "builds" the restricted module
binary directory /lib/module/{Kernel version}/volatile while ignoring
your configuration settings in "/etc/default/*" and builds the kernel
module table from this.

  Sounds like a workable solution doesn't it. EXCEPT for the problem of:

    The resulting "binary only" modules "nvidia"(nvidia.ko) and
"nvidia_legacy"(nvidia_legacy.ko) have the SAME internal kernel module
ID of "nv" and since "nvidia_legacy" comes LAST that's the one the
module tables point to, so that the one the kernel tries to load when a
request for "nv" comes along.

And after a system reboot it (lrm-manger) does obey the setting
in /etc/default/ so "nvidia_legacy" may not even exist NOW.
  {-: note there is even more parts to this little problem. :-}

HUM. where do I report this BUG that I've had to fix each time
linux-restricted-modules-common gets upgraded?


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