Re: nvidia-glx not updating

[Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>]

maybe your mirror is confused?

its worth adding rdonalds archive to your apt.sources

http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php

randall is the nvidia driver maintainer.

Dean

sigi wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:12:23AM +0100, Thomas Rösch wrote:
> > > For the last several days, nvidia-glx fails to upgrade with apt-get
> > > install nvidia-glx (or apt-get update):
> > You must build the new nvidia-kernel-169.07 version of this package. Due a 
> > bug, already reported, you must have a link to fix a renaming problem:
> >
> > ln -s /usr/src/nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2 /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-source.tar.bz2
> >
> > Now you can build the package. :-)
>
> here I couldn't even make 
> apt-get source nvidia-kernel-source 
> like I did always before. This now downloads the nvidia-graphics-drivers  
> source package - is this the right way nowadays? I tried mirrors in NL 
> and D - they both offered the graphics-drivers. 
>
> Now I downloaded nvidia-kernel-source 169.07-2 directly from 
> ftp.de.debian.org/debian and installed it via dpkg - and it worked. 
> Created the above mentioned symlink and m-a a-i nvidia worked. 
>
> Now I have some blurred areas under X11 - is this because new bugs in 
> this sources, or was my method a bad idea?
>
> Regards,
> sigi.