Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]
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On 01/25/08 20:26, Jimmy Wu wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 8:54 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> You could get the unstable nvidia-glx source package and build it
>> using Stable tools. Might not work, though, because the latest
>> nvidia drivers are built with modern tool versions.
>>
>> I'd suggest moving up to Lenny/testing.
>
> I'd rather stick with stable. I went and looked at the howtos for a
> mixed system, and it didn't seem too difficult.
I'd run only a slightly mixed stable/test system, and only for a
little while after a branch goes stable.
And I'd *never* run a mixed stable/unstable system!
> Unfortunately, the
> unstable nvidia-glx depends on unstable versions of a lot of important
> packages, like libx11, libc6, xserver-xorg-core, (and the unstable
> kernel version too? it could have been something else), so I decided I
> didn't want to upgrade that much.
>
> I think I will go with the nvidia installer. I'll post back with
> results of how that goes.
- From nvidia.com? That's what I do...
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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