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I am running Ubuntu 14.05. Every time I reboot after a 2-3 days or a week, the Nvidia driver is disabled because of the automatic software updates. Is it possible to configure the automatic software updater to NOT disable the Nvidia driver? Thank you.

JB_User
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When you get a new kernel in an update, the nvidia driver needs to be rebuilt for the new module. You need to fix your build environment, something is missing. List the nvidia packages you have with 

dpkg -l |grep nvidia

and then for the driver, (nvidia-361 in the below example) get the packages it depends upon:

apt-cache depends nvidia-361
The output looks like:
nvidia-361
  Depends: x11-common
  Depends: make
    make-guile
  Depends: sed
    sed:i386
  Depends: dkms
  Depends: linux-libc-dev
  Depends: libc6-dev
  Depends: patch
    patch:i386
  Depends: acpid
  Depends: lib32gcc1
  Depends: libc6-i386
  Depends: passwd
    passwd:i386
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: <libgl1>
    libgl1-mesa-glx
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxext6
...snip

install the missing ones and the kernel updates should not longer break things.

When you run an older kernel, is Nvidia still broken? What driver are you running when not running Nvidia? (nouveau?) If nouveau, check for the line "blacklist nouveau" in any file in /etc/modprobe.d

ubfan1
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