Bug#692761: nvidia: gnome shell hangs randomly, errors in Xorg.0.log

Thu Nov 8 17:31:05 UTC 2012

On 2012-11-08 17:52, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> To install the nvidia package from unstable, do the following:
> aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia -t unstable

It's probably easier to do this on the nvidia-glx package, which is a
metapackage that pulls in several other nvidia packages via versioned
dependencies and apt probably presents fewer conflicts to be resolved.

aptitude install nvidia-glx -t unstable

Besides that, I have nothing to add to Diederick's explanation. Thanks!

Andreas

PS: downgrading the nvidia packages from sid to wheezy should cause no
problems (but I wouldn't recommend going back from wheezy to squeeze (or
squeeze-backports)