Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

[Alle Meije Wink <alle_meije@yahoo.co.uk>]

Apologies if this question has already been answered, but I have not 
been able yet to get ANY version of nvidia-glx back on my system!

I run a mix of testing and experimental (?), see my sources.list below. 
The nvidia driver files should come straight from their Maker..

My kernel is 2.6.18, and my X server is Xorg.

I have read some hints of changing to unstable to get nvidia-glx, but 
have never been able to replicate any one of those excercises...

When I run
	apt-get install nvidia-glx
it keeps giving messages like
	nvidia-glx depends on xserver-common

so I guess that is still a problem XFree86/Xorg?

The rest of the nvidia packages install well, by the way. It is just 
nvidia-glx whose access is completely denied by apt/xorg or a 
combination of the two...

There are loads of web pages on this, but none of the solutions there 
seems to work for everyone?

Thanks
Alle Meije

sources.list:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# general # TESTING
# UK
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# if UK is down -> NL?
# deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

# nvidia driver: see http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php
# use this source line for unstable drivers
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable
					     nvidia-graphics-drivers
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable
					     nvidia-kernel-common
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-settings 
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-xconfig
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable modules

# mplayer # see http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

# root dirs that may contain packages
# deb file:/root/ debs/
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> Subject: Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? 
> From: Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> Date: Thu, 9 Nov
> 2006 12:26:22 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:38:23 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > Now I am confused:
> > me too...
> >
> > > $ apt-file search nvidia_drv nvidia-glx:
> > > usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o nvidia-glx:
> > > usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o nvidia-glx-legacy:
> > > usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> > i get empty output from apt-file.
> >
> > > Maybe the .so file comes from an older version of nvidia-glx.
> > > What is the result of "dpkg -S nvidia_drv"?
> > nvidia-glx: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> >
> > btw, dpkg -l nvidia-glx gives me 1.0.9625-2 NVIDIA binary XFree86
> > 4.x driver
>
> That is the driver from Experimental. (Maybe you mentioned that
> before and I did not notice.) I have never tried that one myself so
> there might be some 9xxx-specific issue that I don't know anything
> about.
>
> OK, indeed the name is .so:
>
> $ aptitude download nvidia-glx/experimental $ dpkg-deb --contents
> nvidia-glx_1.0.9625-2_i386.deb | grep nvidia_drv -rw-r--r-- root/root
> 1064588 2006-10-20 19:55 ./usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
>
> > > The only thing I know for sure from when I switched from the
> > > nvidia installer to the Debian packages is that the .so and the
> > > .o module do not play nicely together (at least if the .so file
> > > comes from the nvidia installer).
> > strange... there is really no .o file in xorg/modules/drivers/
>
> It seems that there is a bug in apt-file: I have Experimental in my 
> sources.list and yet "apt-file search" did not tell me about the 
> nvidia_drv.so file, and in your case it comes up empty. Anyway, that 
> means my previous statements do not apply to your situation at all. I
>  am sorry for adding to the confusion.