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Re: Sid + nVidia + Compiz == no good?



Hi Magnus!

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 20:59:13 -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote:
> >Hi Magnus!
> >
> >On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >
> >> I've been trying to get Compiz to run on my Debian Sid system.  This is
> >> the setup:
> >> 
> >[snip]
> >
> >You didn't say which nvidia driver you are using. I believe that compiz
> >requires features that are only in the beta drivers fom the nvidia
> >website. I think the current version is 9746.
> >
> >Download the driver from nvidia and install it.
> >You will have to remove the nvidia-glx package or you will end up
> >having to reinstall the driver after every reboot.
> 
> Ah, you mean that _checking_ if the driver is in Debian (experimental)
> doesn't actually install it?  Damn, I thought it did... ;-)
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out to me!
> 
> Now I'm off to implement that package manager that does what I want
> rather than what I tell it too...

I'm not sure of the nvidia driver version in experimental. If it's
8776 then it will not work.


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