Comments on: Install Nvidia Graphics Drivers 190.42 in Ubuntu Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy

By: kenjiru

kenjiru — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:33:02 +0000

I can’t get it installed:

radu@kenjiru:~$ sudo sudo apt-get install nvidia-190-modaliases nvidia-glx-190
Building initial module for 2.6.31-20-generic-pae

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.31-20-generic-pae (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/190.53/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing nvidia-190-kernel-source (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Setting up nvidia-190-modaliases (190.53-0ubuntu1~karmic~nvidiavdpauppa10) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-glx-190:
nvidia-glx-190 depends on nvidia-190-kernel-source (>= 190.53); however:
Package nvidia-190-kernel-source is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx-190 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-190-kernel-source
nvidia-glx-190
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

cat /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/190.53/build/make.log
[..]
*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***

What’s the problem here?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:43:39 +0000

Confirming having to remove the nvidia-settings-190 on Jaunty as well. Works fine apart from that.

By: Martin West

Martin West — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:05:20 +0000

Thanks, worked fine apart from nvidia-settings-190 was not found, so I just removed and then it ran fine.

What a disaster karmic is. After upgrading today x failed to start and in the log was
Feb 6 10:02:33 lenovo3 kernel: [ 39.851476] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 190.53, but
Feb 6 10:02:33 lenovo3 kernel: [ 39.851478] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 185.18.36. Please
but the odd thing was dpkg didnt show any 190 nvidia packges installed.

followed your instructions and back in business again, thanks again.

By: Bud

Bud — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:11:41 +0000

I have upgraded to Ubuntu 910 from Ubunto 904 and the NVIDIA drivers stopped working.

Now when I try to run
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa
I get an error message:

The password and internet connection is fine.
Thanx.
Bud

By: lordbah

lordbah — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:28:54 +0000

I can’t activate this from Hardware Drivers. “installArchives() failed”. This is after Update Manager could only do a Partial Upgrade, but after that completed it found nothing else to do. Things got messed up somehow.

By: dekdence

dekdence — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:33:24 +0000

Yeah.I noticed.Thanks

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:09:18 +0000

gigaman, if the recommended driver is the 96, then the newer drivers will not work on your card, which explains why the X server won’t start. If you can’t update the graphics card you’ll need a new system. However, I’d update to the xorg-edgers ppa and use the Nouveau driver.

dekadence, the 190.53 is in the same ppa and has replaced the .42 driver.

By: dekdence

dekdence — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:17:13 +0000

A new version was released.Can you please make a tutorial on how to install??

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_190.53.html

By: gigaman

gigaman — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:41:55 +0000

whenever I install the 190.42 driver in Jaunty, it will open a menu saying I have no graphics kernel (or something) on reboot and asking me to create a new one. When I go to the X server setting, it will say I would have to restart the Xserver. I however can not do this because the menu of alt+ctrl+f1 demands me “login” and “password” which is not the one I use as a user (is it not able to get the special characters in my password?). Is there a way to get the nvidia 190.42 driver to the proprietary graphics drivers list (system-administration-hardware drivers)so I can install it from the menu instead of the recommended 96-version. Please help!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:13:50 +0000

I am not able to download the key from either the keyserver or from the link that was given.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:58 +0000

Just got a G210 for my new HTPC, lets give it a try!

By: brad

brad — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:53:10 +0000

…. this info allowed me to fix a borked jaunty “dist-upgrade” to karmic. NVIDIA driver was not retained after upgrade. had to apt-get purge and reinstall xorg and xubuntu desktop to get login screen up then used this page to install nvidia drivers.

thanks guys…. (and thanks for nothing karmic koala)

By: MyName

MyName — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:38:40 +0000

Got a 8600 GTS, and I had to add the line:
Option “NoPowerConnectorCheck” in Screen section of xorg.conf.

Now Karmic rules!!!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:22:00 +0000

There was an issue regarding Karmic’s libxine being dynamically linked to the 185 driver. KDE uses xine for media playback, so unlike Gnome, it needs xine. However, the xine-vdpau in the PPA is linked to the 190 driver so that issue is resolved.

Also, changes to the driver packaging required backporting the Karmic DKMS to previous distros.

By: chuicjak

chuicjak — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:11:48 +0000

is it suitable for gtx275?

By: Flying

Flying — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:06 +0000

The PPA source doesn’t seem working. Whenever I tried to install nvidia-glx-190, it complained:
=====snip======
nvidia-glx-190:
Depends: nvidia-190-libvdpau but it is not going to be installed
=====snip======

When I then try to select nvidia-190-libvdpau, its dependency require me to remove a bunch of useful packages I use, such as k3b, kdbbase-runtime, libxine1, etc.

My system is Karmic x86_64:
2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

By: admin

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:46:06 +0000

@Samanta

Which ubuntu version you are using

By: sh

sh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:03:01 +0000

i encounter this error after hitting enter

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa

error:

By: textux

textux — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:59:20 +0000

@blink4blog:
i tried 185 but they failed to work properly due to a bug in karmic. so I removed them completely, and followed the steps from here.
this version works fine…

By: bybuntu

bybuntu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:57:33 +0000

After installing nvidia 190.42, rkward is uninstalled. Its seems that I can not have both becoz they use libvdpau…. any expalnations or how can I go round this problem