Public bug reported:
When the Kubuntu adept-notifier icon appeared with new software updates
yesterday (Nov. 26, 2008), I clicked it and went through the normal
software update procedure. When I rebooted this morning after
installing extra RAM, I found that the nvidia driver had reverted from
177.80 back to the extraordinarily buggy 169.12. Looking through
Adept's package listing, there is no longer any mention of version
177.80 (which is the only version that works well with KDE4). I have
not installed an nvidia driver on Kubuntu from any source other than the
official repositories.
Afterwards, I installed a server kernel to take full advantage of my 8GB
of RAM. I have since rebooted back into the non-server version of the
kernel, and had the same results. Using the 168.12 driver causes
spontaneous video death and extreme video corruption.
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-server:
Installed: 2.6.24.13-19.45
Candidate: 2.6.24.13-19.45
Version table:
*** 2.6.24.13-19.45 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I expected the new nvidia driver update to install the newest nvidia
driver.
Instead, the update reverted back to an old, highly unstable nvidia
driver.
** Affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Package update reverted from nvidia 177.80 back to 169.12
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302881
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