Kernel Updates Breaking nvidia Drivers?

[Greg Taylor]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 22:38 -0700, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:35:36AM -0400, Greg Taylor wrote:
> > Has anyone else noticed that with each kernel update, they seem to break 
> > the nvidia module? I dist-upgraded today on my Inspiron 5150 that has a 
> > nVidia card in it, and it would appear that the 
> > linux-restricted-modules-686 package has been removed and is now not 
> > installable. I tried booting on the 386 kernel which usually works, but 
> > doesn't for the same reason (nvidia module can't be found).
> 
> Everytime the kernel ABI is bumped, linux-restricted-modules must be
> recompiled. Please be patient; a new l-r-m should be in the Ubuntu pool
> shortly.
> 
> Cheers,
I just would've figured that they'd hold off pushing out a kernel update
that will disrupt a good size of the tester's desktop environments until
they build a linux-restricted-modules :)