OK: Followed Alberto's suggestion. Results identical to before. Nothing in dmesg that looks relevant, can't modprobe nvidia (result was FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-386/volatile/nvidia.ko': No such file or directory FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia)
ran depmod, still can't modprobe nvidia, modprobe -n -v nvidia tells me nvidia depends on install /sbin/lrm-video nvidia but it still won't load ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386, then /etc/init.d/kdm restart and it worked. And to answer the envy question: I tried envy because the ubuntu packages weren't working. envy did not work, and I didn't like that I couldn't tell what it was doing without getting into the code - I didn't find a -v option to tell me step by step what it did as it did it. I didn't look very hard though. As I recall it has an option to remove all old nvidia installations. I think that didn't work (not sure now). I also recall it had a 'remove envy' option, which failed somehow. So I don't really want to go that route - I'd prefer it if I could get the ubuntu packages working - but I did already do what Alberto suggested, which is use envy to (try to) undo whatever envy did. I agree with Sitsofe, that it is a bug in linux-restricted- modules-2.6.20, since that package is doing something that does not last over a reboot. -- nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
