I wanted to try a pae and or realtime kernel and that lead me to this issue with kernel 2.6.33
I thinks its pretty well documented that kernel-2.6.33 kernel modules won't build from nvidia current drivers (I tried 256.44 today it fails too) without being patched. I'm not that proficient.
Anyway I found this thread on ubuntu studio forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1470264
from which I was able to find a ppa with patched nvidia/ati drivers and the 2.6.33 pae reatime kernel.
The following 2.6.33-kernel issues are addressed in the above thread:
1. NVidia drivers - module fails to build.
2. ATI drivers - module fails to build.
3. Broadcom driver - module fails to build
4: VMWare player - several modules fail
5. How too manually compile the 2.6.33-rt kernel and headers.
This is the repo that worked for me:
https://launchpad.net/~falk-t-j/+archive/lucid/
Note* he has a lot of other packages so apt-get dist-upgrade might not be the best route.
I locked the kernel. nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases and nvidia-settings in synaptic then tested to make sure the packages wouldn't be upgraded against other versions such as x-swat.
I'm not sure what will happen if xorg updates? I'd really like to get 1.8 back but the last couple times I tried it from x edgers it borked my system so I'll stay with the one from x-swat for now.
Anyway I didn't need the pae but wanted to see if it would work better for me as rarely do I even use 1gb of memory with no swap file/drive. I can't tell if the pae is doing much but between that and the reatime I can noticed a marked improvement comparable to disabling desktop effects.
I'm happy!
I thinks its pretty well documented that kernel-2.6.33 kernel modules won't build from nvidia current drivers (I tried 256.44 today it fails too) without being patched. I'm not that proficient.
Anyway I found this thread on ubuntu studio forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1470264
from which I was able to find a ppa with patched nvidia/ati drivers and the 2.6.33 pae reatime kernel.
The following 2.6.33-kernel issues are addressed in the above thread:
1. NVidia drivers - module fails to build.
2. ATI drivers - module fails to build.
3. Broadcom driver - module fails to build
4: VMWare player - several modules fail
5. How too manually compile the 2.6.33-rt kernel and headers.
This is the repo that worked for me:
https://launchpad.net/~falk-t-j/+archive/lucid/
Note* he has a lot of other packages so apt-get dist-upgrade might not be the best route.
I locked the kernel. nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases and nvidia-settings in synaptic then tested to make sure the packages wouldn't be upgraded against other versions such as x-swat.
I'm not sure what will happen if xorg updates? I'd really like to get 1.8 back but the last couple times I tried it from x edgers it borked my system so I'll stay with the one from x-swat for now.
Anyway I didn't need the pae but wanted to see if it would work better for me as rarely do I even use 1gb of memory with no swap file/drive. I can't tell if the pae is doing much but between that and the reatime I can noticed a marked improvement comparable to disabling desktop effects.
I'm happy!
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