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Re: SOLVED Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby



On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:39:57 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sb, 31 dec 11, 10:55:04, Richard wrote:
> > > 
> > The upgrade does not leave the installed nvidia 290 intact NAUGHTY !
> > the proprietary Nvidia driver has to be reloaded.  
> 
> I'm guessing you are not using the Debian packaged nvidia driver, 
> otherwise you wouldn't get such issues.
> 
> More generally, whenever you install things outside Debian's package 
> management you have to be prepared to fix things on the next upgrade. 
> 
> This is not to say that Debian's package management is flawless, but 
> must of the upgrade bugs are caught before the release (usually even 
> before testing migration).
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

Hi Andrei

I did try within debian package management, But I could not get it to function, hence the fallback to
the Nvidia proprietary driver.
IF it would help get the debian packages to work, I could un-install the proprietary driver and try again
with the debian packages.

-- 
 Happy New Year

Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown

e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com   or   richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk

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