Re: nvidia-kernel-source gone from sarge repository ?
On 30 Jan 2005 at 10:43, Tim Day wrote (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2005/01/msg00136.html ):
>On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:52 +1100, Jim Richardson wrote:
>> Today 29 Jan 2005 as far as I can see it still isn't in the sarge
>> Packages file. ...
>
>Presumably they've been dropped 'cos of release critical bugs e.g:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267799
>I guess it could re-enter Sarge if they were fixed:
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=nvidia-kernel-source
Thanks for providing the explanation, Tim.
The nvidia packages are still in unstable sid, and by fetching them
from there and installing them with dpkg instead of apt-get on my
sarge/testing system I was able to get the nvidia driver going. I
didn't see any of the problems referred to in bug 267799 or the
related 257809 or 288675 (but I'm not using either devfs or udev).
I'm ccing to Andrew in case he'd like to make a note about this on the
very helpful http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ pages.
Jim
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