Re: installing nvidia card in lenny apt source.list not quite right...
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:27:25PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I tried installing the graphics card. Things went OK until I did the autoinstall step. It complained that there was something wrong with the apt sources.list entries. I think e.g. I am not picking up sid files etc.
>
>
> debian:/etc/apt# more sources.list
> #
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52]/ lenny contrib main
>
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
Why no non-free on those lines? contrib without non-free never did seem
to make much sense.
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> debian:/etc/apt#
>
> I did apt-get update.
>
> Comments appreciated.
What does 'apt-get update' say?
What is the exact error printed when you run the module-assistant
command to compile the driver module?
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Len Sorensen
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