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Fixing nvidia drivers issue after every kernel update on Debian/Ubuntu

February 22, 2014

I’ve noticed after every kernel update, nvidia drivers need to be manually compiled yet it fails to load due to incorrect modules path. Here is how.

Requirements
nvidia-current must be present apt-get install nvidia-current which puts the source in /usr/src

On every kernel update:
Install kernel headers (this can be done from console if WM isn't loading up):
    apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Change directory to latest version of nvidia-current package (195.36.24 at the time of writing) in /usr/src and compile the driver:
    cd /usr/src/nvidia-current-195.36.24
    make && make install

One time command (Symlink new drivers to X11 modules):
    cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
    ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg/nvidia_drv.so ./nvidia_drv.so
    ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg/libglx.so ./libglx.so

Restart Display Manager (kdm, gdm):
    /etc/init.d/kdm restart

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