Re: non-free nvidia driver on etch?

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 11:09 -0700, Jonathan Pearce wrote:
I have used Andrew's Debian-nVidia HOWTO with success in the past. The
problem is that the nvidia-glx package is not available on testing at
this time. I can't use the unstable nvidia-glx package, because the
unstable package depends on xorg 1.7.0.

Is there a workaround, or should I bite the bullet and try installing
xorg 1.7.0? I would really prefer not to install xorg from unstable as
it looks like it will be a major PITA. All I want is the latest nvidia
drivers.

Sincerely,
Jonathan

On 5/30/06, Owen Heisler <owenh000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:12 -0700, Jonathan Pearce wrote:
I was hoping to keep my driver installed 'the debian way' rather than
install the package from Nvidia. Does anyone know how best to install
the nvidia graphics driver on etch?

Here is a howto that I use. It seems to be very complete.
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html

Arrgh When will I finally start remembering to change the recipient
when I reply to a message?! Why don't Debian lists change the
"Reply-To"?

Sorry, I can't help you any further. I am new to Debian and somewhat
new to Linux. I would go to packages.debian.org, though, and
download/install the stable nvidia-glx package manually. Unless there
would be a problem with version dependencies...?


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