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Re: More Xorg



On 2010-03-16 19:39 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Sven,
>
>> Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
>> _are_ available as regular Debian packages?  They do not suffer from
>> the problems that you describe here.
>
> I actually looked into installing them, but the list of packages that
> would have to be removed/replaced looked as though I might end up with a
> system where X is totally borked again.  So I chickened out.

If you run squeeze, you need to install the nvidia-* versions from sid.
I don't know why the nvidia-graphics-drivers source package had not been
removed from testing months ago, as it's utterly broken there (the
missing nvidia-kernel-* packages prevent the sid version from
migrating).

Sven


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