Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:59:49PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I have been reading the debian nvidia howto and I noticed the following comment:
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> Current issues
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> Testing users: NVIDIA packages are currently not in testing due to lack of maintainance, a Linux bug and X server 1.4's ABI change. Filipus Klutiero plans to update the document when the situation is fixed. In the meantime, packages referred to by this guide will not be available on pure testing systems. It is possible to setup a testing/unstable mix.
> 
> I assume that these problems have been fixed and you can install the nvidia packages on pure Lenny (which I am using), provided you follow the instructions in the rest of the howto....

If you take the source package from unstable, change the dependancy
version for xorg to the version in testing and I think a couple of other
build dependancies, and then build the package, it installs and runs
just fine.  At least I think that's what I did a few weeks ago.  You can
even do it for Etch the same way if you want.

The package in unstable does depend on a newer xorg than is in testing
as far as I recall, but the nvidia driver itself does in fact not have
that version requirement.

Perhaps it would be nice if the package in unstable was modified to have
a more lenient version requirement so that it could in fact be installed
on lenny with no modification required.

-- 
Len Sorensen