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Thanks, Raphaël.

> Did you not remove all the old nvidia driver stuff before upgrading?
no... I didn't know. I will not forget the next time! 
By the way, why I have to removre only the nvidia stuff and not the Norbert's sony module? What's the difference?

> Ok. First try '--force' and if that does not solve your problem
the --force option didn't help... your help will be welcome!



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De : Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
À : Sony Vaio Z-series Laptop <sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc : domak <domakmail-ubuntu@xxxxxxxx>
Envoyé le : Jeu 6 mai 2010, 18 h 44 min 05 s
Objet : Re: [Sony-vaio-z-series] dkms problem with old nvidia driver

Hi Christophe,

Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 12:33 +0000 schrieb domak:
> I upgraded from karmic to lucid few days ago. On karmic, nvidia driver
> was installed with the sony janitor script, thanks to Raphaël (sorry, I
> can't remember which ftp version I had, prety sure that was 195 but...)
> The first time I booted on speed mode after upgrade, fglxgears was not
> running, so I reinstalled the driver from ftp (195.36.24) with janitor
> script.

Did you not remove all the old nvidia driver stuff before upgrading?

> 
> During install, I had some error message from dkms. These messages are
> the same that the ones from dkms status:
> 
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.31-17-generic, x86_64: built
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.31-19-generic, x86_64: built
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.31-20-generic, x86_64: built
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.31-21-generic, x86_64: built
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.31-18-generic, x86_64: built
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.31-16-generic, x86_64: built
> sony-laptop-zseries, 0.9np5, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> nvidia, 190.53, 2.6.31-17-generic, x86_64: built
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> nvidia, 190.53, 2.6.31-19-generic, x86_64: built
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> nvidia, 190.53, 2.6.31-20-generic, x86_64: built
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> nvidia, 190.53, 2.6.31-21-generic, x86_64: installed
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> nvidia, 190.53, 2.6.31-18-generic, x86_64: built
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> nvidia, 190.53, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
> 
> That's weird because I have only one kernel, the 2.6.32-22 and still
> have this messages, even after removing driver with janitor script.
> I tried to remove the nvidia module from dkms with:
> 
> domak@domakistan-laptop:~$ sudo dkms remove -m nvidia -v 190.53 --all
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
> dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
> 
> Error! Bad conf file.
> File: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/190.53/source/dkms.conf does not represent
> a valid dkms.conf file.
> 
> The /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/190.53/source is a link on a directory that
> doesn't exist:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 2009-12-24 16:04 source ->
> /usr/src/nvidia-190.53

The directory '/usr/src/nvidia-190.53' seem to be removed during upgrade
process. When nothing else won't work, you may always be able to
recreate that dir with the original sources but first try to remove it
with '--force':

sudo dkms remove -m nvidia -v 190.53 --all --force

> 
> I don't know if dkms is the real problem but when I try to install the
> driver from distrib, I have some messages that seems to confirm that:
>  dmesg:
> [   27.028319] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 195.36.15,
> but
> [   27.028321] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 190.53.  Please
> [   27.028329] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA
> driver
> [   27.028330] NVRM: components have the same version.
> 
> What should I do to remove this module without breaking my system (I
> have only some very basic knowledge on linux)?


Ok. First try '--force' and if that does not solve your problem, I'll
explain how you can recreate the removed source dir.

regards,
Raphael