Re: How to shift backwards on nvidia's driver?
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Kenward Vaughan:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:29 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Kenward Vaughan:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm in the predicament of needing to have OpenGL working on my box,
> > > which already has the latest X updates (this is in Sid). The
> > > instability issues exists with the driver I have, so I need to back
> > > down to one which doesn't show the problem. I'm running with the nv
> > > server at the moment.
> > >
> > > I have the 100.14.11 driver installed. Is nvidia-glx the server
> > > itself, or which server component is used with that?
> > >
> > > I am uncertain exactly how to do this. It seems that I would have to
> > > downgrade a lot of files. Or does the Nvidia legacy driver from their
> > > site work with the current xserver components?
> > >
> > > Would it be better/easier to create a fresh base to work from?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Kenward
> > > --
> > > The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
> > > have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow
> > > than in the church. --Ferdinand Magellan
> >
> > Hi Kenward,
> > I am having much problems with nvidias driver higher than 100.14.09. My
> > system freezes unexpectly. This is caused by the binary part of the
> > nvidia driver and effects mostly 64-bit systems. Not every graphic card
> > is effected, but mine is. Others reported of the freeze, too, (there are
> > some reports of it on Nvidias linux site).
> >
> > Although other people might report, the driver is stable, I say: It is
> > NOT. The same driver is running on my 32-bit system stable, but i repeat:
> > Other people report about the same problems. My card is a Nvidia 7300 Go.
> >
> > I suggest, to get back to 100.14.09 (you can get all packages at
> > snapshots.debian.net) and revert to this driver, which is reported by
> > everyone to be very stable.
>
> This is the point I am unsure of--what packages do I install? Would
> they be only the nvidia-kernel/glx pkgs. or a wider assortment of
> things? As Len pointed out (and what I'm concerned with, considering
> potential downtime), will all of Xorg wind up being involved? (This
> comes from having another kernel on board with the 9755 driver, which
> fails to work with X.)
>
> Does the back-peddling involve some forced installs using dpkg?
>
> > Just take a look at my reports in this forum, too.
>
> I'll search for them.
>
> > The bug is in the binary part of Nvidias driver, not in the Debian part.
>
> Understood.
>
> > Good luck
>
> Thanks!
>
> > Hans
> >
> > P.S. the latest drver 100.14.23 (only downloadable at Nvidia) seem to be
> > more stable again, but I sometimes saw some weired effects (i.e. the
> > screen went down dark for a second)
>
> I may try it for fun. :)
>
>
>
> --
> The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
> have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
> in the church. --Ferdinand Magellan
Just put this in /etc/apt/sources.list
# sources of packages which are no more in the repository
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool nvidia-graphics-drivers
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool nvidia-graphics-drivers
Then do apt-get update.
Now you can install the correct version. It is a little tricky, when you use
aptitude, as aptitude tries to correct things automatically. You have to
choose manually all dependecies. If you forget one, aptitude will correct it,
and you have to start again. If everything works, let aptitude hold the
nvidia-packages. So they will never be overwritten, even when upgrading.
If you want to upgrade them later, you can relaese them manually again.
Good luck
Hans
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