@Jason Roth: Thanks for the offer. I did get back to a working nvidia
proprietary driver by finding a repository which still has
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16 and installing it, then going to the
hardware control app and checking the box to be sure it was activated. Once I
re-copied my xco
Lack of sound may just mean you need to re-compile the sound modules for this
new kernel you just installed.
Failing that perhaps try a newer version of the alsa sound drivers. I had to
use the absolute latest recently on a laptop I was configuring with Ubuntu 8.04
--
Kernel 2.6.24-17 - broken
I notice there is a new rev of the NVIDIA driver which may (or may not) help
people.
The Nvidia driver is at version 173.14.05 as of May 28,2008
This won't help me - I am running Hardy Heron as shipped with kernel 2.6.24-16
and was careful enough
to read about reports of this regression before
