dist-upgrade on 11.04 breaks nvidia-current

[LowFidelity]

Nope, you repackage with '-I'. See steps below:

cd <directory above tmpdir, where you originally put the .deb that was unpackaged>
dpkg -I name_of_your_new_package.deb

Then try the install. If you edited the nv-linux.h file correctly, it should work.

Hope that solves your problem,

-Mark

when I try to do dpkg -I new_package.deb it returns this:

dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `name_of_your_new_package.deb': No such file or directory

[mbobak]

Wow, I'm really sorry. I totally screwed up the directions.

For the 'repackage' step, you need to do:

dpkg-deb --build name_of_new_package.deb

Try that, then try installing the new package:

dpkg -i name_of_new_package.deb

Sorry for the screwup!

Let me know if that works for you.

-Mark

[LowFidelity]

When I built the package it returned this:

dpkg-deb: warning: 'my_tmp_dir/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Modaliases'
dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warning about the control file(s)

am I supposed to modify the control file also?

[MAFoElffen]

Here's a fix for your original problem, installing nvidia drivers on the 3.0.x kernel from my sticky:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=306

Oneiric has the first fix in this post, included in it already, Natty needs it, as I don't think it was included... Reason? The 3.0.x kernel was not released for Natty, but is in the later Oneiric dev builds already. These fixes we found while testing Oneiric when the kernel numbering schema changed.

Hope this helped.