There seems to be an easy solution to this. The proprietary Nvidia
driver uses the kernel headers to perform its job (the specifics of
which I'm not quite clear on). Simply installing the new -pae kernel
headers solved this problem for me.
I'm not versed at all with the way packages are structured
BTW, for anyone who is interested in getting this to work:
(quoting solution from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741754)
"[The] problem is that you have the nvidia driver installed as a deb
package but not the driver itself, for which you need the kernel
headers.
Install the package k
I was able to get PAE kernel to work with just installing the kernel
headers. Why it is not isntalled as a dependency?
The problem reappeared after today's kernel update which left me again
without nvidia module compiled. I have switched to non-PAE kernel for
now until this bug is resolved.
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This bus is still present in 11.04.
I did an update from 10.10 to 11.04 with a working binary nvidia driver.
I removed the pae kernel, because of the non-working driver.
After the upgrade, the pae kernel was installed, leaving me with no gui on boot.
I had to boot another kernel and remove the pae
This bug still is present in 11.04.
After upgrading my system, the pae kernel is automatically selected and the
nvidia binary driver is not working!
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Hey Vincent,
Hi, have you had a chance to test if this bug is still present in natty?
If it does (and if you're the original reporter), please boot into natty
and run the command:
apport-collect
which will update the bug with fresh logs and tag the bug as affecting
natty. (It is best to ru
** Package changed: firefox (Ubuntu) => nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
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Title:
after installing PAE kernel NVIDIA driver does not work - no GUI
