Ping: Liam re: Newer kernel backports for 10.04

[Jeff G.]

On 02/15/2012 08:24 AM, Liam Proven wrote in another thread:
 > If you're still running "Lucid", 10.04, and are having driver problems
 > or something, there are now 3 different newer kernels available.
 >

<snip>

 > If you look in Synaptic (or the package manager of your choice), you
 > should see (for example):
 >
 > linux-image-generic-lts-backport-natty
 >
 > and the matching linux-image-generic-pae-backport-natty and
 > linux-image-server-backport-natty.
 >

Long story short:

Running U 10.04 - with the last 2 kernel upgrades, my old nVidia card 
started losing contact - losing high graphic effects settings regularly. 
  Best I could figure, problem was either GTK, compiz, my driver install 
in the kernel (s) or 1 of a few bugs.
So for giggles, I went and installed the 3.0 kernel - it would only boot 
into low graphic mode.  So I went for the latest nv 96 from their site 
(manual) which complained a few times but installed,

lsmod shows nvidia being used by 22

jeff at jeff-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 
420] (rev a3)

I have nvidia.ko in  /lib/modules/3.0.0-15-generic/kernel/drivers/video/

Using xfce, graphics seem fine - have purged compiz for xfwm.

xorg says
Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Device0"
     Driver         "nvidia"
     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"


Jockey can't detect the driver at all - do I need to worry about that?

Thanks,

jg