New kernel and nvidia on Dapper

[Nigel Ridley]

Piero Ottuzzi wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic
> 
> should be enough.
> 
> Bye
> Piero

Just to say that as soon as the install was completed apt (through the taskbar 
update thingy) informed me that two more packages were available for upgrading:
linux-restricted-modules-common nvidia-glx
so I did the upgrade - now I'm going to reboot.......

Blessings,

Nigel

> 
> Alle 16:05, giovedì 1 marzo 2007, Nigel Ridley ha scritto:
>> I saw an older thread about problems with the new kernel and nvidia under
>> Dapper but deleted them as I thought that after a week or more the problems
>> should have been fixed - NO!
>>
>> I did an update/upgrade a few days ago and only yesterday booted into the
>> new kernel (we had a power outage) only to find that Xorg couldn't find the
>> nvidia kernel module.
>>
>> Not much of a problem - I just rebooted into the previous kernel and
>> everything is OK again.
>>
>> BUT why did apt let me know that there were dependency problems when
>> upgrading? Isn't this the power of apt?
>>
>> Is there a solution to the new kernel and nvidia drivers yet or do I have
>> to wait for another new kernel?
>>
>> I'm now kicking myself for deleting the thread :-(
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
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