Re: xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.
H. S. wrote:
> 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
>
> ...
>
> 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:
>
> ...
>
> 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"?
There is some sort of dependency problem with nvidia-glx. It probably
has nothing to do with Xorg because I get the same error with xfree86.
There is a discussion about this on an Ubuntu forum
<http://www.ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=39675>. The solution I
used is on page 2. Someone (harshy) created a dummy libglu package
that "resolves" the dependencies. Download it, install it using dpkg
-i filename.deb, and apt-get should stop complaining. AFAIK you still
need the same drivers and should use the same techniques (i.e., m-a) to
install them. Other than how to work around this problem, I don't
really know what's going on here.
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