[Bug 16909] New: BREEZY - nvidia restricted driver stopped working after breezy upgrade

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Ubuntu | linux-restricted-modules

           Summary: BREEZY - nvidia restricted driver stopped working after
                    breezy upgrade
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: linux-restricted-modules
        AssignedTo: daniel.stone at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: jjchico at dte.us.es
         QAContact: kernel-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


I have upgraded from hoary to breezy and it took me some time to ge my nvidia
tnt2 running again with the restricted driver from nvidia (with 3d
acceleration). Basically, the upgrade failed to set up the new configuration now
that there is a separate driver for old nvidia 3d cards (legacy driver). I did
not try a fresh install and I suppouse it may be work in progress.

What I did to get it work again (after probing a lot):

- Upgrade to breezy: X stopped working. dpkg-revonfigure xserver-xorg to the
free nv driver and it worked
- installed new nvidia-glx-legacy package with Xorg driver
- installed new linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-686-nvidia-legacy package with
the nvidia kernel driver for old cards.
- reconfigure restricted modules: dpkg-reconfigure linux-restricted-2.6.12-9-686
- restart X: /etc/init.d/gdm restart

It should be done automatically. Maybe some of:

- linux-restricted-modules-XXX depend on
linux-restricted-modules-X.X.X-Y-Z-nvidia-legacy, so it is automatically installed.
- linux-restricted-modules-XXX reconfiguration run automatically, with automatic
detection of the driver to activate.

Some versions:

ii  linux-686                                           2.6.12.16              
                 Complete Linux kernel on PPro/Celeron/PII/PI
ii  linux-image-2.6.12-9-686                            2.6.12-9.19            
                 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.12 on PPr
ii  linux-image-686                                     2.6.12.16              
                 Linux kernel image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
ii  linux-kernel-headers                                2.6.11.2-0ubuntu12     
                 Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-686               2.6.12.4-7             
                 Non-free Linux 2.6.12 modules on PPro/Celero
ii  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-686-nvidia-legacy 2.6.12.4-7             
                 Non-free Linux 2.6.12 modules on PPro/Celero
ii  nvidia-glx-legacy                                   1.0.7174-0ubuntu22     
                 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'legacy' dri
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                                1.0.7667+1             
                 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files

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