On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:48:23PM +0100, Athanasius wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:28:46AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Is there a way that the nvidia-graphics-drivers backport can be updated > > to work with the 2.6.17 kernels? I had to go snaphost.debian.net and > > get the 1.0.8178-3 packages and backport them myself. Apparently, some > > incompatibilities arose with the introduction of 2.6.16. > > It'll take some digging through: > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 > > but it should have patch(es) someplace in there. nVidia are no good at > releasing something official for such things, but the dev(s) responsible > for the linux drivers there are pretty good at posting a patch to get > them working in the meantime. > > I just wish they had a sticky with the latest applicable patches. > Inevitably I end up posting only to be 'told off' and pointed to the > non-obvious thread that already has the patch. > Why not just get the 1.0.8178-1 and 1.0.8178-3 versions from snapshot.debian.net and then take the difference between them? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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