Re: nvidia for backported kernel
Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru> writes:
> You mean I can just install the dkms backport package and then the
> binary nvidia-kernel-dkms package from unstable?
> OK, but what version of other nvidia driver packages (nvidia-glx etc)
> do I install? Versions from unstable are unlikely to work in lenny,
> and will lenny packages work with the kernel module from unstable?
> (I tried to backport the nvidia drivers source package, but the build
> has failed).
Backporting the NVIDIA packages to stable is difficult because of
substantial changes to how ia32-libs works and because a lot of the
cleanup of the packages requires a fairly new version of dpkg.
It should be much easier to maintain backports for squeeze going forward,
and the current NVIDIA packaging team have some tentative plans to do so.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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