I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on a Thinkpad machine. Recently I installed NVidia CUDA on it. The installation was successful, thanks to this very helpful guide.
Unfortunately, the X server stopped working after the latest software update/upgrade. I could use the shell, but doing sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
and then start
never helped. Doing Ctrl + Alt + F7
changed the screen to the boot log (all those messages that are shown if you load Ubuntu in the failsafe mode). No Gnome, no graphical log-in window.
I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 on another partition and reinstalled CUDA. NVidia's dev driver works and I would like to prevent my new Ubuntu from doing this kind of dangerous upgrades again. But still I would like to do sudo apt-get update
and sudo apt-get upgrade
for all the other packages on the system.
How can I do updates to Ubuntu while excluding NVidia video drivers (and all that xorg.conf stuff) from being updated?