Uh, I meant to do that

(title should be spoken using your best Pee-Wee Herman impression)

I got the bright idea yesterday to upgrade my Ubuntu install's kernel to one specific for the AMD64, with SMP support, blah blah blah. So, instead of reading about what I should do, I just opened up Synaptic and found the SMP kernel and said "install this."

I rebooted and boom, X server is dead. Turns out when you upgrade the kernel you also may have to reinstall the Nvidia drivers, at least when you're using the beta drivers that are required to run Beryl. OK, no problem, I'll redownload and reinstall the beta drivers. Well, yes problem, because for some reason they won't compile. I tried this, I tried that, I tried the other... and then I gave up and reinstalled Edgy from a CD.

This time, however, I installed the x86 version of Ubuntu... too many things were wonky when running the AMD64 version. I still can't print (grr) but at least the Ubuntu splash screen is in color again. And beryl seems to be running faster. Hm.