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After updating to linux 3.10 my GPU stopped working, it is a EVGA NVIDIA geforce 650. So I went about to purge nvidia and reinstall, did not work. The first time I installed it worked the flawlessly. This is what happens, when i go to "Additional Drivers" > Activate > NVIDIA binary Xorgdriver, kernal, module and VDPAU library, I get the following error:

Sorry installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log`. 

So I did the troubleshoot for that and still did not work.

Then, I went to the NVIDIA X Server Settings and got this error:

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfi' as root)`

I did that and I get the usual New X config file written to 'etc/X11/xorg.conf. That still does not work. I purged nVidia again. I downloaded it again via nVidia's website and booted to CMD to do a manual install, but when it won't boot to CMD it is just a black screen and nothing shows up.

I am new to Ubuntu so please go easy on me, I have a bunch of CS projects I have to finish for school so time is of the essence. (I don't know if this will help but I had issues installing JDK, it still does not compile correctly as well as RSA and SSH and GIT. so I don't know if I screwed up big time on the Kernel update).

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  • Did you run modprobe nvidia?
    – Danatela
    Jul 10, 2013 at 2:00
  • No I didn't, I will try that out and report back,thank you for the reply!
    – octain
    Jul 10, 2013 at 4:14
  • Which Ubuntu version? (12.04, 13.04, etc.) 32 or 64 bit?
    – david6
    Jul 10, 2013 at 8:21
  • Sorry i should have elaborated on that, it is 12.04 lts
    – octain
    Jul 10, 2013 at 16:29
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    I am not sure what the issue was,but I completely wiped all of nvidia off my HHD and installed everything on my SSD, worked first time around
    – octain
    Jul 12, 2013 at 1:43

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None of the nvidia drivers are currently compatible with kernel 3.10. There are some patches floating around however I would wait for the official NVidia update. Go back to kernel 3.9 or earlier for the moment.

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  • Thank you, that is exactly what I did and it fixed the issue
    – octain
    Aug 12, 2013 at 22:46
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I had to fall back to my 3.9.3 kernel because of the same error in all of my 3.10.

If you notice the error log: test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \ echo >&2; \ echo >&2 " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ echo >&2 " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\ echo >&2 " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \ echo >&2 ;

Doing what it says to do was no help for me. The driver would not install. I've tried old drivers and beta. No luck.

I checked in the /lib/modules//include/config and there was a missing file - autoconf.h and/or auto.conf

If I were to guess, the new kernel broke it and nVidia hasn't produced a fix yet... or the other way around. If I figure out how to fix 3.10 + nvidia driver, I'll post here!

UPDATE: Just to confirm, I am using the 3.9.11 Kernel and the nvidia 319.32 drivers installed perfectly. So apparently, the 3.10.x -does- have some issues that break the nvidia drivers.

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