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Hey folks, I'm hoping one of you can help me out with a problem I seem to be having with the NVIDIA proprietary drivers on one system.
Now to start out with, this system is my girlfriend's system, which just got a new processor/board/ram/case combo - pretty much everything but the drives were replaced. We didn't reinstall Ubuntu since I figured (correctly) all the necessary drivers were probably already compiled as modules and ready to go.
I'm using the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers - 169.12. The rest of the system is up to date. After running the NVIDIA driver installer, everything runs perfectly...until a reboot. It seems that somewhere along the line an alternate nvidia kernel module is being loaded, but I can't find the booger in the module path, and when I modprobe -r nvidia; modprobe nvidia and restart gdm, everything works beautifully.
I'm pretty stumped -- I ran a find looking for nvidia modules on /lib/modules and it looked like everything there was created when I ran the installer. I really have no idea where this other nvidia module is coming from. I've made sure that all of the default nvidia packages have been removed from the system, but I can't figure out how to get rid of this other driver.
As an aside, I've gotten this working plenty of times before -- my laptop and desktop both are running the latest proprietary driver with no problems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Now to start out with, this system is my girlfriend's system, which just got a new processor/board/ram/case combo - pretty much everything but the drives were replaced. We didn't reinstall Ubuntu since I figured (correctly) all the necessary drivers were probably already compiled as modules and ready to go.
I'm using the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers - 169.12. The rest of the system is up to date. After running the NVIDIA driver installer, everything runs perfectly...until a reboot. It seems that somewhere along the line an alternate nvidia kernel module is being loaded, but I can't find the booger in the module path, and when I modprobe -r nvidia; modprobe nvidia and restart gdm, everything works beautifully.
I'm pretty stumped -- I ran a find looking for nvidia modules on /lib/modules and it looked like everything there was created when I ran the installer. I really have no idea where this other nvidia module is coming from. I've made sure that all of the default nvidia packages have been removed from the system, but I can't figure out how to get rid of this other driver.
As an aside, I've gotten this working plenty of times before -- my laptop and desktop both are running the latest proprietary driver with no problems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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