On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:19:33AM +0800, 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? You need to download nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.4496-2.1 and compile it. After you compile it, install it along with nvidia-glx 1.0.4496-2.1 and nvidia-kernel-common 1.0.4496-3. > > (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 Not positive, but what about: Package: nvidia-* Pin: version 1.0.4191 Pin-Priority: 1001 > > but they do not seem to work. > > Can you help please? > > Many thanks. > > 15 Nov 03 > 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 > CRICOS Provider Code: 00126G > > -- Jerome
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