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Wtwine
October 18th, 2010, 05:18 PM
Hi

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32-25

I have had trouble with getting Nvidia card to work after kernel upgrade. Nvidia kernel module fails to load and I have to boot in low graphics mode. After reinstalling drivers etc etc, I discovered that I need linux-restricted-modules installed. However, there is no such meta-package installed in Synaptic When I tried:

sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)

I get this error message:

E: Couldn't find package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.32-25-generic

Restricted packages is selected in sources, so why is it not installing the restricted modules meta-package?

How do install it??

Thanks
Lazaruss
October 18th, 2010, 05:30 PM
try

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
realzippy
October 18th, 2010, 05:33 PM
Open synaptic/settings/repositories
and check if "restricted" is enabled.

Edit:

sorry,overread that you enabled them.So have you updated the sources?
realzippy
October 18th, 2010, 05:35 PM
try

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

this is a package with
GStreamer plugins, Microsoft fonts,java runtime environment, Flash plugin, LAME,aso.
It does not contain the "restricted modules" (AFAIK).
Lazaruss
October 18th, 2010, 05:39 PM
this is a package with
GStreamer plugins, Microsoft fonts,java runtime environment, Flash plugin, LAME,aso.
It does not contain the "restricted modules" (AFAIK).

oops, my bad, thought they were one and the same... i have no linux-restricted-modules in synaptic, just ubuntu-restricted-extras
mrnelson1986
October 18th, 2010, 07:35 PM
What is your video card? For me just booting into recovery and reinstalling the nvidia drivers manually works.
Wtwine
October 19th, 2010, 10:57 AM
Problem solved. It wasn't a problem with restricted modules after all. It turns out that my GeForce4 T4200 graphics card requires the Nvidia-glx-96.43.xx legacy driver, and is not supported by the current driver (260.19.xx). When I upgraded, the legacy driver must somehow have been replaced by the current one.

So, I purged all installed nvidia drivers again (sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia*), installed Nvidia-glx-96 and associated recommended packages in Synaptic, and rebooted. Now my graphics card works again! At last!