nvidia AMD64 howto - worked for me - correction (apologies)!

[Leon Vismer]

Hi Ravi

Please include /var/log/nvidia-installer.log

What graphics card are you using?
$ lspci | grep -i vga

might help to identify

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Leon

> I tried everything you said. I even reinstalled Ubuntu with latest nightly build iso. and then followed your steps.
> 
> Could not get pass step 5. 
> uname -a, ls -al /usr/src, ls -ld /usr/modules/2.6.8.xxx/build everything returns same kernel but still nvidia install.run can not find kernel interface. Says it needs to compile interface but could not. 
> 
> So I guess I give up now. 
> 
> Thank you very much for all the help.
> 
> Ravi