The Ubuntu packages are not just a drop-in. They hook into DKMS which the Nvidia drivers themselves do not do. There's also a lot of other Ubuntu specific things that the package does. Looking at all these bugs they all have to do with the module failing to build with the Ubuntu package. I don't see any reports of the issue with Nvidia .run installer.
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 08:29:12 PM Brian Norris wrote: > The Ubuntu package is mostly just a drop-in of the official Nvidia > packages for Linux: > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html > > So yes, this is actually an Nvidia upstream problem. > > I suspect that there is some sort of race condition in the provided > build scripts written by Nvidia, and they are only showing up > intermittently or under particular system configurations/states, so > package reinstallation tends to work fine the second time. > > Related: I see this comment in Nvidia's Makefile regarding the "new" > build system in Linux >= 2.6: > > # The new approach currently has its own share of problems, some of which > # are architectural difficulties with KBUILD, others minor annoyances. For > # this reason, an improved version of the NVIDIA Makefile is available to > # those experiencing difficulties. > > So it sounds like they admit to having architectural difficulties here. > I wonder where this "improved version" of the Makefile can be > obtained... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268257 Title: nvidia-331-updates 331.38-0ubuntu3: nvidia-331-updates kernel module failed to build, with only error: "objdump: '... .tmp_nv.o': No such file" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1268257/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
