Bug#661253: Trying 295.33

[Julian Gilbey]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:10:42AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Julian,
> 
> On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 20:57 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> [...]
> > You can download the older versions in the meantime from
> > snapshot.debian.org.
> > 
> >    Julian
> 
> Thanks for that pointer, I had forgotten about that resource. Silly me.
> 
> On the other hand, because of the way Debian splits up the NVIDIA
> support into many packages, it seems a lot easier to revert using the
> NVIDIA run file.  I have redownloaded 285.05.09, 290.10, 295.20 and
> 295.33 so next Wednesday I can try each of them in turn on a newly
> updated system and report back what happens.

I easily found the packages I needed to download by running the simple
command shown here together with its output on my machine; you'll have
to replace 290.10 by whichever package version you have installed:

erdos:~ $ dpkg -l | grep 290.10 | cut -d' ' -f3 | xargs dpkg -s | egrep '^(Package:|Source:)'
Package: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: libgl1-nvidia-glx
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: libglx-nvidia-alternatives
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: nvidia-alternative
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: nvidia-glx
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: nvidia-vdpau-driver
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
erdos:~ $ 

The Package lines tell you which packages are installed, and the
Source lines tell you which directory they will be found in within the
pool.

   Julian