Comment 5 for bug 210226

Still fails as of 2008-04-06, with this day's upgrades.

rbe@rattler:~$ uname -a
Linux rattler 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Apr 4 03:10:59 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've observed the following:

1. Some upgrades disable the nvidia graphics driver, dropping me back into 680x480 land.
    The way I fixed these was to use the command-line apt-get to reinstall the nvidia drivers
    again, then do (I think...) nvidia-install again, then configure them.

2. The system doesn't properly sense Samsung SyncMaster 191T settings, although
    it is claimed to be Plug'n'Play. I'm confused at the moment about the LG 226WA,
    but I think it does better.

   At any rate, some updates seem to lose either monitor characteristics, or nvidia driver,
   or both.

3. Built-in table for above monitors don't seem to exist. I have to pick generic
TFT size setting, but that looks to work ok, despite being a nuisance.

[The following is probably unrelated bug, but just in case it's relevant...]:

4. After soft reboot (from shutdown menu), and sometimes on system power-on,
    the system never completes booting. It drops into initramfs(?) after thinking
    over the root file system stuff during bootup.

    It says "ata_id[4091] main: HDIO_GET_ID... {can't read my handwriting...} failed for
   /dev/.tmp/8-16.

Hard reboot via reset button has fixed this boot failure, thus far.