xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.
I am trying to fully convert to Xorg in a Sid machine in my home
network. The problem is something to do with nvidia-glx, which upon
trying to be installed complains:
~# apt-get -s install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-glx: Depends: xlibmesa-glu but it is not going to be installed or
libglu but it is not installable or
libglu1
E: Broken packages
So I have some queries regarding this whole process of shifting to Xorg.
What does the above error really mean, since to install xlibmesa-glu
requires me to remove gdm and other stuff:
~# apt-get -s install xlibmesa-glu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gdm gdm-themes gksu gnome-netstatus-applet libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0
libglu1-xorg x-window-system x-window-system-core
xbase-clients xdm xprint xprint-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xlibmesa-glu
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 13 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Also, with this new Xorg, do I still need the drivers by Nvidia (the
ones I used to install with "module-assistant auto-install nvidia"?
Sorry for all these queries, but this whole transition to Xorg and the
new C++ ABI is creating a bit of confusion for me.
thanks,
->HS
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