Re: nvidia-kernel-source gone from sarge repository ?
> >> 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.
Okay, thanks for the report. I'll add a temporary warning to my installation
page, saying that people will have to use unstable for now. I don't know why
the nvidia packages have been dropped from testing, but I fully expect that
Randall is on top of the problem.
BTW, you should still be able to use apt-get to fetch the packages from
unstable, just run 'apt-get -t unstable'.
Honestly, some while back I gave up trying to keep track of all the problems
that udev and devfs have with the nvidia drivers. It looks to me like a
constant stream of similar bug reports. I'd like to use udev, but IMO it's
too much hassle at present.
A.
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