Heikki Levanto:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:53:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>
>> Well the 169 driver in unstable works fine with 2.6.24. The one in
>> stable works fine with 2.6.18 (but I don't believe it supports an 8xxx
>> cards).
>>
>> My howto on installing it on Debian is here:
>> http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html
>
> Thanks, and sorry for being dense, but when you say 'the 196 driver' (or 1xx
> driver, as you say in your howto), what should I be getting. I seem to be
> unable to find any debian packages with that number in it.
$ apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source
nvidia-kernel-source:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.8776-4
Version table:
169.12-1 0
50 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
1.0.8776-4 0
950 http://ftp2.de.debian.org etch/non-free Packages
169 is (part of) the version number. You can use aptitude to search for
packages with a specific version:
$ aptitude search ~V169
i mt-daapd - iTunes-compatible DAAP server
p nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
p nvidia-glx-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development
p nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
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