latest kernal upgrade borked nvidia driver

Bruce Marshall bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Sun Jun 10 20:24:00 UTC 2007


On Sunday 10 June 2007, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> after which the nvidia driver for my  GeForce 7600 GS no longer works.
> I've changed it back to the 'nv' driver and now get only 800x600
> resolution, strange since I got 1024x768 with it before.  There is no
> upgrade available for the nvidia driver through synaptic and I do
> understand that it is proprietary so do you think I should  install the
> nvidia-available driver or wait for one to become available through
> Ubuntu channels?
> I do so miss those cool 3d effects!

Install the NVidia supplied driver.   It is very good  but needs to be 
re-installed with every kernel upgrade.  (to build a new module)




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