10.04 update and nvidia driver

[Liam Proven]

On 16 October 2011 20:09, Barry <txscope at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> (repeating for a better subject line)
>
> I have an old laptop that I don't use every day. When I started it up
> today, there were a slew of package upgrades, including a new kernel,
> cups and
> grub.
>
> I've got 10.04.3, and was running kernel 2.6.32-33; the upgrade was to
> 2.6.32-34.
>
> Most of the packages installed but the upgrade failed on cups, dbus and
> grub. And I cannot boot into the
> new kernel, but I can boot into the previous kernel.
>
> The apt error was about a conflict with the nvidia packages. I've got
> the nvidia-agp module loaded.
>
> There's no initrd line in the grub menu list, and there no initrd in
> /boot
>
> I'm ok back in 2.6.32-33

This may sound odd, but there are much newer kernels available in
Lucid now. I believe both 2.6.25 and 2.6.38 are available. I'd try the
newest and if that doesn't work fine, remove it, and try 2.6.35.

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