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From: Andreas Duffner 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Info: NVidia working with vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-386
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:02:21 +0100
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>> This works:
>> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-386 root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=0x0307
>> Perhaps this will help someone.
>> Or if someone could tell why that is so ?

> AFAIK they have nothing whatsoever to do with nvidia drivers : they are
> kernel versions with a vga mode at boot time - before the drivers are
> installed.


You may *sound* right. But you *are* not right.
Because this is how it *is*. It is not some guessing or so.
I do *not* know why that is so. But it *is*. Sorry.

Why I even tried it was some post of someone who suggested to
remove the "vga=blabla" part because this enables the framebuffer.
Or so he told at least.
I have no idea about all this stuff so I just tried it.
It did not work.
But while I tried that, I tried my old kernel.
And that one worked with the new nvidia settings.

So again:
The kernel version happens to have an effect on the nvidia driver.
With the new one (I got it via the automatic update) does prevent
my X-Server to start at all.

The old one does start without any problems at all.

Some people try for days to get nvidia cards to work.
The normal working way is - as far as I read in this forum -
to remove all nvidia stuff, get the nvidia-drivers from
the nvidia homepage and let the driver so some
kernel-compile-rebuild-stuff I do not understand.

And would have tried that as last resort, because I do
not want a graphics driver to rebuild my "kernel".
I do not have any understanding of "kernels".
I just think they are the system per se and the
most important thing of my linux.
And I fear that allowing some driver to change the kernel could 
interfere with the security updates.

Sorry if I talk nonsense :-)

It seems you have some understand what a kernel "is".
So you are in a better position you try to understand what happens.
Please try. Just some ideas would be helpfully. Perhaps.  .-)
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