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I did not find an existing bug report on this issue even though certain
other reports exist regarding the nvidia-185 package that affect me, so
I am filing a new one. While upgrading from jaunty to the karmic RC (on
the 28th of October, a day before the final release), during the
installation of nvidia-185 (upgrading from nvidia-180.xx, the latest on
jaunty), I got a warning message to the effect "this driver has no
modules in kernel 2.6.31, installing in 2.6.28", and installation
continued in the existing 2.6.28 kernel I had; this sound like a
potential problem to me, since I (and I am sure many others) do not like
to keep older kernels on the system. I am therefore inclined to believe
this is a packaging bug in the existing nvidia drivers (185.xx)
available in the karmic upgrade. I did not save the log, since I had
never filed a bug report and I was all too excited to check out what
karmic was like (the upgrade did complete with a few hiccups), but I
believe that the problem is completely reproducible from a system with
the latest nvidia drivers (180.xx) in jaunty and running kernel 2.6.28,
upon an upgrade. I am not aware if this issue has been fixed in the
current version of karmic.

After the upgrade I was plagued by the "powermizer" problem in:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-
drivers-180/+bug/456637

which is a different story altogether, and probably unrelated to the
issue at hand. I am inclined to think that the nvidia driver v185.xx is
itself the cause of this and until replaced by the newer 190.xx it will
continue to be so.

(While filing this report, for some reason I was unable to select
nvidia-graphics-drivers-185, with the error message that this package
does not exist in Ubuntu, even though it shows up in the search)

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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nvidia drivers 185.xx compile into kernel 2.6.28 instead of 2.6.31 on update from jaunty to karmic
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/474917
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