Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

[Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@bellsouth.net>]

* Jo Shields <jo.shields@oerc.ox.ac.uk> [2007-08-24 21:23:53 +0100]:

> Now, assume those packages are updated (e.g. by a security update),
> reversing the nvidia changes. The nvidia driver will unexpectedly stop
> working. You try to uninstall, which replaces the overwritten files with
> the versions that were there oringinally (e.g. 1.0.3 versions of files
> that were updated to 1.0.4). This will break X completely.
> Congratulations, you're now one of the hundreds of people who demanded
> that nvidia-installer was great, right up until it poked them in the
> ass.

Is there any way to list all the dependencies of a package, or do a
manual verification of the web of dependencies?  The "Examine/!Apply" in
aptitude is helpful.

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