Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:28:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2013-06-23 19:03 +0200, Carl Fink wrote:
>
> > For what it's worth, I tried the Free nVidia driver
>
> I'm afraid you are a bit confused, there is no such thing. At least not
> a free driver *from* nVidia.
Perhaps I'm confused, but that's not what I meant. I meant a Free driver
*for* nVidia adapters.
>
> > (xvideo-xorg-video-nvidia)
> And this package does not exist, there is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
> however, containing the non-free nVidia driver.
Typo. But I thought that Debian wouldn't package commercial stuff, so I was
assuming that any official Debian package would contain only Free Software.
Perhaps it downloaded the nVidia package silently in the background?
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