On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:43:26PM -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote:
>
> I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it
> working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's
> vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace
> through the problem, and perhaps somebody can point to a better way.
>
> Debian etch
> nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run ("the installer")
> nvidia-glx-legacy
As far as I know you are *not* supposed to have both, so you should
purge the package nvidia-glx-legacy. You might want to restore that file
first, otherwise dpkg will complain about a missing file.
Regards,
Andrei
P.S. The newer nvidia-glx is also a solution, but make sure you remove
all traces of the other driver as well.
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