Bug#859310: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx: Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0) No drivers available.

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 15:18:12 -0400 "A. F. Cano" <afc at shibaya.lonestar.or
g> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 12:44:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > ...
> > The problem is that your dpkg alternative is set to use mesa rather
> > than nvidia to provide glx. That's why the symlink was missing.
> > 
> > You can fix this manually by running:
> > 
> > sudo update-glx --config glx
> 
> Mmm...  Running this returns:
> 
> There is only one alternative in link group glx (providing
> /usr/lib/glx): /usr/lib/mesa-diverted
> Nothing to configure.
> Processing triggers for glx-alternative-mesa (0.7.4) ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9) ...
> 
> I wonder what else I need.  Libg11-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx is
> installed (version 304.135)

The alternatives (and as a consequence the symlinks, the modprobe files
etc) are set up by the nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative maintainer
scripts. If you still have the apt logs, could you please check if
there was any error when installing/upgrading that package?

Also to fix it please try:

dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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