Re: Nvidia cards

[JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>]

Jerome BENOIT wrote: 
> 
> JoeHill wrote:
> > Jerome BENOIT wrote: 
> >   
> >> Hello List,
> >>
> >> you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.  
> > 
> > Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
> > 
> > node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Reading extended state information      
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Writing extended state information... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done         
> > The following packages are BROKEN:
> >   nvidia-glx 
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   gnome-vfs-obexftp{u} libevolution5.0-cil{u} libhesiod0{u} libkadm5srv5{u} 
> >   libopal3.6.1{u} libpam-cracklib{u} libpt2.6.1{u} libusb-1.0-0{u} 
> >   libzephyr3{u} nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686{u} 
> >   nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem{u} padevchooser{u} paman{u} paprefs{u} 
> >   pavumeter{u} pulseaudio-module-gconf{u} pulseaudio-module-zeroconf{u} 
> >   toolame{u} 
> > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 18 to remove and 426 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 7129kB of archives. After unpacking 33.2MB will be freed.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-185.18.31 which is a virtual package.
> > The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> > 
> > Remove the following packages:
> > nvidia-glx
> > 
> > Score is -9881
> > 
> > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
> > 
> > Does this mean that nvidia-glx will be upgraded?
>
> Hello List,
> 
> actually what I am doing, given that my box is a Lenny box,
> I grab the Sid source and I build the Debian packages with dpkg tools.
> 
Your top-post is no match for my cut and paste ;)

Do you have a link to a howto for building those packages?

Thanks!

-- 
J