x freezes after last dapper kernel upgrade

[Kenny]

golfer wrote:
> Well, I can now report my third system freeze.  Yes, I am using the
> restricted drivers (for nvidia card), and I have installed the headers
> and recompiled my modem driver.  Still nothing in the logs .. they
> just stop working like everything else, keyboard, mouse, monitor,
> sound .. only a hard reboot brings me back.
>
> I'm going to roll my i386 kernel back and run for a day to see if it
> stops.  I don't use gnome (except firefox and thunderbird), so don't
> think the gnome problems are the culprit.
>
> regards,
>
The only way that I was able to get this to work was to boot into the 
kernel that I wanted to use in Recovery Mode, created a clean xorg.conf 
file using 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg', walk through the steps, 
(don't select nvidia, just use the nv drivers for the moment), uninstall 
the official nvidia drivers 'apt-get remove nvidia-glx' (you will 
already be at root in Recovery Mode, no need to sudo), backup your new 
xorg.conf 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup' then 
reboot.   Play around in the default X session (with no nvidia drivers) 
for a while to make sure that your machine doesn't lock up.  If it does, 
you may have another problem.  If not then reinstall the nvidia drivers 
'sudo apt-get install nvdia-glx' then 'sudo nvidia-xconfig', reboot and 
try again.  See if you lock up this time.  After I did all of this, my 
lockups quit.