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Re: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.4496-2.1



R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
Dear Sir,

I have an NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX440] video card that worked fine with the nvidia-glx_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb that I got from
Justin A <justin@bouncybouncy.net>'s web page about nine months ago.

Now, during a routine update/upgrade cycle, the package nvidia-glx_1.0.4496-2.1_i386.deb maintained by you was installed but I could not get X up after that.

Accordingly, I manually downgraded by going to /var/cache/apt/archives and using dpkg -i to install the previous version.

I have two questions:

(1) Why does the new version not work?

(2) How can I prevent the newer versions from ever being installed, if (1) cannot be fixed? I have in /etc/apt/preferences the lines:

Package: nvidia-*
Pin: release v=1.0.4191-1
Pin-Priority: 1000

but they do not seem to work.

Can you help please?

Many thanks.

--Chandra
  15 Nov 03
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Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
M018, Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS)
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-(8)-9380-3749  Fax: +61-(8)-9380-1168
email: chandra@ee.uwa.edu.au
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It looks like that website has not updated it's versions very recently, e.g. kernel 2.4.22 is not there.
496 is the latest Nvidia version, I use 363.
Why don't you just download the script from the Nvidia site and run it?
You'll have to apt-get the kernel-headers for your version of the kernel.


Hugo.








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