JamesB7
May 17th, 2008, 11:42 PM
Hey all,
I hadn't used Linux in six months, so today I thought to myself, "Hey, why don't I try Linux again, this will be FUN :KS." Turns out the upgrade broke everything for me. Good job having your act together guys.
Anyhow, here's the deal. The new nVidia drivers won't work if your kernel is the old version. How could that happen, you say? Here is how. I use GRUB to triple boot Kubuntu 32-bit (for compiling eeeevil closed source apps), Ubuntu 64-bit (what I've just got working and am using now), and Windows XP (because it's better).
Now, having installed Kubuntu 32-bit *after* Ubuntu 64-bit, upgrading Ubuntu 64-bit meant that it was using Kubuntu's boot loader and menu.lst. As a result, when Ubuntu 64-bit upgraded, while it updated its own menu.lst, it did not update the one I was booting from.
You should add a check for this in the installer, and if it identifies the bootloader as GRUB, figure out where GRUB is actually reading menu.lst from. Clearly when I installed Kubuntu 32-bit it figured that out, since it copied menu.lst over. Why didn't it reference the original and use that? Who knows, I bet all you incompetent tech "wizards" can tell me, or maybe I should "implement it myself since it's open source!" hah, but there you have it, something to check if you aren't able to get your driver working.
James
I hadn't used Linux in six months, so today I thought to myself, "Hey, why don't I try Linux again, this will be FUN :KS." Turns out the upgrade broke everything for me. Good job having your act together guys.
Anyhow, here's the deal. The new nVidia drivers won't work if your kernel is the old version. How could that happen, you say? Here is how. I use GRUB to triple boot Kubuntu 32-bit (for compiling eeeevil closed source apps), Ubuntu 64-bit (what I've just got working and am using now), and Windows XP (because it's better).
Now, having installed Kubuntu 32-bit *after* Ubuntu 64-bit, upgrading Ubuntu 64-bit meant that it was using Kubuntu's boot loader and menu.lst. As a result, when Ubuntu 64-bit upgraded, while it updated its own menu.lst, it did not update the one I was booting from.
You should add a check for this in the installer, and if it identifies the bootloader as GRUB, figure out where GRUB is actually reading menu.lst from. Clearly when I installed Kubuntu 32-bit it figured that out, since it copied menu.lst over. Why didn't it reference the original and use that? Who knows, I bet all you incompetent tech "wizards" can tell me, or maybe I should "implement it myself since it's open source!" hah, but there you have it, something to check if you aren't able to get your driver working.
James