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Re: Nvidia drivers



On Monday 18 April 2011 09:38:52 James Allsopp wrote:

> Done, that and still get the same error; full output is
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> W: Did not understand pin type *
> 
> I think the pin type error is where I tried to force grub to not upgrade
> to grub2,
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 

Are you sure that  nvidia-kernel-dkms is not already installed?  What is the 
output of dpkg -l "nvidia*"?

-Chris

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