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  1. Bug #467490
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 467490

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 467490] Re: nvidia drivers don't work due to -Q in obsolete /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:33:18PM -0000, Ted Parvu wrote:
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 01:26:00 am you wrote:
> > Thanks, one more question, you mention you upgraded from 8.04 to 9.10.
> > Did you do the upgrade as 8.04->8.10, then 8.10->9.04, and then
> > 9.04->9.10, or did you do 8.04->9.10 all in one go?
> >
>
> Went from 8.04 --> 9.10 all in one go.
>
> I had been running 8.04 for probably close to a year.

Aha! Okay that explains it.

Yeah, as a general rule we recommend people upgrade either from LTS to
LTS, or from release N to release N+1, as these are the scenarios we
focus on testing during development. Upgrades that skip releases are
not tested so well (it becomes a combinatorial explosion of options)
and I can imagine that an issue like this would arise. I would be
surprised if this is the only issue found.

Still, let's keep the bug open. This issue definitely needs solved for
Lucid.

Bryce