Re: X.org and NVidia
Sven Krahn <sven.krahn@gmail.com> writes:
> On 7/20/05, Andrei Mikhailovsky <andrei@arhont.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any other way? Or waiting for debian developers to fix
> these
> issues is the only way?
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> This is what in my opinion Goswin meant by 'Welcome to sid!' in two or three
> other threads. If you are running sid you must expect such dependency issues
> to happen (though I agree this is quite a complex situation right now). If you
> are not actively working on and supporting the transition the only thing -
> with regards to sid - is to wait. Because the current issues affect basically
> everybody using sid (+x.org +kde) I suppose people are heavily working on it
> and a resolution will come soon.
> I found a working way for myself by falling back to testing (etch), installing
> both x.org and KDE 3.4.1 from Ubuntu (on a different partition) which also
> allows me to use the Nvidia driver incl. glx. This at least allows me to
> continue my 'reglular desktop use' of the system until everything has been
> sorted out in sid.
> As soon as the transitions in sid are done (i.e. x.org and the kde
> dependencies), and a dist-upgrade will clean up everything on my sid
> partition, I will switch back to that environment again.
> --
> Best regards / Mit den besten Grüssen
> Sven Krahn
You can recompile the nvidia-glx yourself too if that is the only
problem you hit in sid. But if you aren't sure about that, then
staying with etch till the transition moves there in one big jump is
the best thing to do.
MfG
Goswin
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