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In Ubuntu 14.04.5 I did sudo apt-get upgrade intencionally for holding kernel updates and I installed nvidia-375 because I have a GTX 740M I know that if I update the kernel, my GPU driver will die, and I will enter in that black screen loop over an over. But something happened...

updater is showing me rare things

Why Ubuntu is recommending me AMD/ATI Drivers if I have a NVIDIA GPU?

Can I update the kernel or my changes will be lost?

My laptop is a bit old, it was released in 2013 so that's why in Ubuntu 14.04, the drivers that comes in kernel 4.4.0-31-generic, works fine¹.

¹ I added acpi_backlight=video because my intel graphics have a bug in his driver, it appears on windows too, see, I have a HD Graphics 4000 so that command in /etc/default/grub works for manipulating the brightness

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Egon Stetmann.
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If Nvidia drivers have been installed from the repos or a PPA with DKMS, it will not "die" after a kernel upgrade.

AMD drivers are updated, because Ubuntu has pre-installed open source drivers for many GPUs.

I suggest upgrading all suggested packages and installing Nvidia drivers properly if there is a problem with them.

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