Re: where do I get nvidia sources?
On Thursday 24 February 2005 05:15 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > slider:/etc/apt# apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
> > nvidia-kernel-common Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package nvidia-kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by
> > another package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> > E: Package nvidia-kernel-source has no installation candidate
>
> apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source
>
> nvidia-kernel-source isn't in stable yet, and the version in testing has
> been temporarily withdrawn, pending resolution of some release-critical
> bugs. So for now you'll have to add '-t unstable' to your apt-get
> command.
>
> For more details about installing the nvidia drivers, see
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/.
What a mess it is... I can't get KDE to start using "nvidia" only "nv" and I
suspect it is because I have not installed glx but I found no packages for
glx other than one that seems to require a 2.4.x kernel, which is installed
with that package.
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