Lost my Nvidia Driver?

[Andrey Zhidenkov]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:38:02AM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 08:29 +1300, Jeff wrote:
> > Hi, After Running Hardy64 for about a year i have lost my Desktop
> > Effects. tried to enable them in Preferences> Appearence but no go.
> > Then i tried to enable the Nvidia Driver in Administration > Hardware
> > Drivers but all i get there is  " No propietary are in use on this
> > system"
> > Anyone able to help please?
> 
> Was the linux-image-* package updated before it stopped working? Do you
> have the accompanying new restricted-drivers package installed? If no,
> then the linux-image metapackage is probably not installed either,
> because it is responsible for installing all needed packages for a new
> kernel.

I've always used an official NVidia driver, downloaded from nvidia.com.
The bad thing is that i have to build a new kernel module manually any
time, when I update a kernel. I dont' know exactly what drivers used
when you install it from Administration > Hardware. Any ideas?