Re: Fwd: Nvidia binary driver installation

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello !



oss@larstennstedt.de wrote:
>   Hello again,
>
> sorry but I forgot to mention that I want to install the nvidia-driver 
> from Sid in my testing/squeeze installation. Maybe "apt-pinning" was a hint.
>  
>
> Bye,
> Lars Tennstedt
>
>
>
> ---------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----------
> Von: "oss@larstennstedt.de" <oss@larstennstedt.de>
> An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Datum: 4. September 2009 um 11:25
> Betreff: Nvidia binary driver installation
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. It 
> is a
> time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install the 
> driver with
> apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I installed 
> testing/squeeze and
> sid in virtual machines and was surprised that I was force to use
> module-assistant and so on. It is no problem at all.
> 1.) Is that the new default way of installing the nvidia driver coming with
> Squeeze or is this a temporary situation because Squeeze is still in testing
> state?
> 2.) Is it possible to install the nvidia driver from Sid with 
> module-assistant?
> Apt-pinning is already configured.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Greetings,
> Lars Tennstedt


Last week, or the week before, a discussion on the same subject
was engaged on the list: you may have a look.

hth,
Jerome


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