DKMS and nvidia drivers not working properly in Lucid

[Steve Morris]

I applied a number of updates last night through synaptic to Lucid. Two 
of the update were an updated kernel and an update to the nvidia driver. 
The kernel was installed fine, the nvidia driver installed fine but the 
dkms interfacing has stuffed the system.
When the nvidia install triggered the dkms interaction, dkms said it was 
removing all modules (I have seen in the past when using the Lucid dkms 
under Karmic that when it said it was removing all module it was 
removing everything interfaced to dkms, not just the module being 
updated), why?
Also dkms said it was only building the nvidia module for the currently 
active kernel, why not all installed kernels?
After finishing the update and rebooting, when xorg was started my 
monitor displayed a dialog saying input was not supported (this is an 
indication that the resolution/refresh rate being used by xorg was not 
compatible with the monitor) even though the xorg.conf configuration 
file that was working fine before the update had not been altered. I got 
this monitor issue with all kernels selectable from grubs menu.lst. Why 
was this happening and how do I fix it, and how do I stop these issues 
from happening again?

regards,
Steve
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