[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#593524: Bug#593524: Bug#593524: nvidia-glx: failed to load nvidia module after having full-upgrade

[Russ Allbery]

Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel at msxnet.org> writes:
> On 08/19/2010 11:13 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Do you have the kernel header files package installed?  Or, rather, did
>> you before you ran module-assistant?  module-assistant would have
>> installed it for you.

> Oh, note that the dkms didn't give any errors, it even said
> "OK". Without having those headers installed. Or isn't that what you're
> implying? (That DKMS needs those installed as well.)

Right, because it built the module for all the headers that you *did* have
installed, which all worked fine.  It's just that none of those were for
the kernel that you were actually running, so you didn't get the module
you needed.

It's probably the biggest problem with DKMS.  This is all very unintuitive
if one doesn't install kernels solely via the metapackages and ensure that
you have all the header metapackages installed as well.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>