Linux kernel 2.6.25
Hey hey, it's me again... 
I probably made the mistake of already giving this new kernel a try and now I have an annoying little problem. I managed to install the nVidia 169.12 drivers for my video card (GeForce 8400), but now, when I try to activate the drivers from the Restricted Driver Manager, I get this message:
"You need to install the package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.25 for this program to work,"
Thing is...how do I even find it? Synaptic returned no results and neither did Google :S this might be something rather stupid in the end, but right now I'm kinda lost. Anyone knows how to solve this?
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Hmmm, you should be able to enable the driver editing the xorg.conf, I think, but I can't tell you if it will work. Did you install everything with packages or just compiling and then installing? Maybe the problem is that you installed the kernel package but synaptic can't find the restricted-modules because it doesn't have them in the repositories. Anyway, if you can't solve it, you can always use the old kernel ;)
It was a package I downloaded directly from the nVidia website. Thing is, during the installation process it removed the previous drivers, which worked without problems on the older kernel. Now the latter just doesn't let me enable the nVidia drivers any more (seems to do so, asks me to reboot, but when I do they aren't actually enabled, which means I can't even activate the desktop effects. "Desktop effects could not be enabled.)
Now occasionally the laptop will boot but tell me, before the log in screen appears, that my monitor or video card were not properly recognised and that I have to manually configure them. That way I can't set up the maximum resolution my screen would allow me to use. Rather frustrating.
One thing is for sure, I'll never ever upgrade a kernel again in my life. I'd rather install a newer distro from scratch than undergo all this...
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Ok, I managed to restore the drivers as they were before, and now Ubuntu is acting normally with the original kernel (even though the image of my webcam is now upside down....).
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Ok, I managed to restore the drivers as they were before, and now Ubuntu is acting normally with the original kernel (even though the image of my webcam is now upside down....).
Well, good to hear that. As for the webcam I can't tell you anything, the only time I tried to make mine work it was so awful that I haven't tried again xD.
Hmmm, you should be able to enable the driver editing the xorg.conf, I think, but I can't tell you if it will work. Did you install everything with packages or just compiling and then installing? Maybe the problem is that you installed the kernel package but synaptic can't find the restricted-modules because it doesn't have them in the repositories. Anyway, if you can't solve it, you can always use the old kernel