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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #685017
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 685017

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: Jockey should warn on insufficient disk space in LiveCD environment, else get error "package nvidia-current 260.19.21-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1"

Hrm, unfortunately even using all the workarounds I still couldn't get fglrx up. Here's what I tried:

[Workaround]
1. Download an ISO (I tested against the alpha-1 iso image)
2. Generate a USB drive using usb-creator. Do not reserve all the remaining space. Leave some amount for system updates (I tested on a 4G drive, reserving 1G to persistent storage and the remaining ~2G for system updates, but other quantities may work as well). This works around bug #562312.
3. Boot the USB drive, select "Try Ubuntu" (the Live CD environment)
4. Delete the broken /vmlinuz symlink and create /vmlinuz as a new symlink to /cdrom/casper/vmlinuz /vmlinuz. This works around bug #557023.
5. Do an update (via running 'Check' in Update Manager, or just 'sudo apt-get update' on the command line). Otherwise jockey will fail with error about not finding expected versions of Qt or other packages.
6. Now run 'Additional Hardware' (aka jockey), and click 'Activate'. Some stuff is downloaded and installed... time passes... then it says it is successfully installed.
7. Reboot (I had to manually select boot from USB in BIOS for some reason; didn't have to do that before.)

Everything seemed fine up through this point. The boot graphics were different than previously, making me think that fglrx had loaded. However no good... checking dmesg shows that radeon was selected, no fglrx at all. So I think there's more at play here, but my guess is that it has to do with the way the filesystems are set up more than it being an issue with -nvidia or -fglrx particularly. So I'll leave the -nvidia task closed, but if anyone identifies something that definitely needs done on either driver, please feel free to reopen.