[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#524078: Update

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:03:51PM +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> I noticed today that there was a bit of reshuffling in unstable yet
> something isn't still right.
> 
> From what you've said and read I only need 3 things to get it all
> working.  A kernel, the nvidia kernel driver, and the nvidia xorg
> driver.
> 
> This is the current setup:
> * linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64 is installed
> * nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64 is installed
> 
> There is no point in trying to install nvidia-glx because it relates
> to 180.44 and the nvidia kernel module relates to 173.xx.
> 
> I have an 8800 GT so 173.xx that used to work just fine with it and
> will also work with 180.44 so I have a choice between the two.  As
> there are no pre-built modules for 180.44 (I don't know why though)
> I'll just use 173.xx

Because no one has built them and submitted them.  Historically this
has only happened for stable.  I have done some work towards having them
autogenerated, but that isn't complete yet.  When that gets completed,
the modules should end up being prebuilt most of the time.

> Ok so I figure that now I should just install nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx
> yet synaptic spits out:
> nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx:
>  Depends: nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-173.14.18  but it is not installable
> 
> I can't install nvidia-glx as that is looking for 180.44 kernel modules
> 
> This seems bizarre as the package nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64
> provides 173.xx modules and not 180.44 modules!
> 
> What is the purpose then of the 173.xx kernel modules if nothing can
> seem to use them?

Ehm, you install the -source package and use module-assistant to build
the module package for your kernel.

I have a howto on how to do it here:

http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html

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Len Sorensen