problem of nvidia-glx and xorg-driver-fglrx

[Timo Aaltonen]

> --- Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3.net>wrote:
> > > Also, I noted that nvidia-glx depend on 
> > > linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-386. I must
> > install 
> > > linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-386 even if I
> > have installed
> > > linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic.
> > 
> > This isn't actually true.  nvidia-glx depends on
> > nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774,
> > which is provided by all the various LRM packages. 
> > If you install
> > nvidia-glx without having an LRM installed, apt will
> > try to pull in
> > -386, because it's the first alphabetically, but if
> > -generic is already
> > installed this definitely doesn't happen:

but it still breaks automated installations, -386 kernel is pulled in and 
used as default even if I preseed it to install -generic:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17/+bug/68621


(and the -386 kernel fails to mount root on boot :)

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