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

[Alexandru Cardaniuc <cardaniuc@gmail.com>]

lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

>> Current issues
>> 
>> 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.

Not anymore. I installed nvidia driver from sid on my lenny machine. No
problems.


> 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.

It was modified :)

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