When you download the drivers from the nVidia website and install them on Ubuntu10.04, you may encounter the following ERROR: Unabletoloadthekernelmodule 'nvidia. ko'. Handler
When you download the drivers from the nVidia website and install them on Ubuntu 10.04, you may encounter the following errors:
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia. ko '. this happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as rivafb/nvidiafb is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device (s ), or nvidia gpu installed in this system is not supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release.
Follow these steps to fix the preceding errors.
1. download the latest nVidia driver;
2. Open the blacklist module as an administrator;
Vim/etc/modprobe. d/blacklist. conf
Add and save the following parts:
Blacklist vga16fb
Blacklist nouveau
Blacklist rivafb
Blacklist nvidiafb
Blacklist rivatv
3. Delete all previously installed nVidia drivers:
Sudo apt-get -- purge remove nvidia -*
4. Restart your computer;
5. When an error message is displayed indicating that the nVidia driver cannot be loaded on Ubuntu, select the Terminal Option;
6. log in and enter the folder to save the downloaded driver;
7. Install the driver:
Sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2.run
8. Restart
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