Yep, wanted to try compiling my own kernel, found a nice howto, and yes! It does take time, but it works :) When you have done it once, you can do it again.
But why would I want to do that? Well, I wasn't able to run the NVIDIA display driver install script. It complains about my kernel being compiled with another gcc(GNU Compiler Collection) version, than is installed on my machine? NVIDIA wants 3.4 but I have 4.0...
Well, I thought, then I'll just recompile my kernel using the gcc4.0 that I had installed default.
But this apparently didn't work either. The NVIDIA script still complains.
...I once again, read through these Ubuntu Forums, and once again, I find out I was misguided. You just need to 'unmask' the restricted multiverse repository in the file /etc/apt/sources.list, and voila! You have access to a nvidia-glx driver. Which I intend to try out now :) howto for this.
later....
"Did it work?" you ask. I'm not sure, I have no errors, and no games to test... hmm, I say it works... done √
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