nvidia driver and new kernels

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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:22, Matt Wette wrote:
> As other people have noticed, the nvidia driver needs to be
> reinstalled with a new kernel.  There is another problem.  If
> you use the NVIDIA* script to build/install the driver for the 
> new kernel, the nvidia driver
>   /lib/modules/<oldkern>/kernel/driver/video/nvidia.o
> gets removed.

It's a "feature" of the NVIDIA installer: when you run it after
installing the new kernel, the first thing it says is something like "I
found an old version ver XXX of the NVIDIA drivers.  It will be removed
if you continue."