Bug#770588: nvidia-driver automatically installed in eeepc with no nvidia card

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-11-22 21:56, Jose David wrote:
>>> Is there any way to check the reason nvidia-driver was installed?
>>
>> aptitude why nvidia-driver
> 
> This is the output of that command:
> #aptitude why nvidia-driver
> i   task-lxde-desktop         Depends    lxde
> i A lxde                      Recommends xserver-xorg
> i A xserver-xorg              Depends    xserver-xorg-video-all |
> xorg-driver-video
> i A xserver-xorg-video-nvidia Provides   xorg-driver-video
> i A xserver-xorg-video-nvidia Recommends nvidia-driver (>= 340.46)

I couldn't reproduce this:
* minimal wheezy chroot, non-free/contrib enabled
* apt-get install --install-recommends task-lxde-desktop
* sed -i s/wheezy/jessie/ sources.list
* apt-get dist-upgrade --install-recommends

Does not pull in any nvidia stuff.

Did you have any opencl packages installed?


> #aptitude why xserver-xorg-video
> Unable to find a reason to install xserver-xorg-video
> 
> Even more, I cannot find package xserver-xorg-video in the repository:

xserver-xorg-video is a virtual package provided by all xorg video
drivers, including xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

> FWIW, I used apt-get instead of aptitude for the dist-upgrade, and had
> a couple of unrelated problems because of errors with man-db, which
> were solved by "apt-get -f install".

The man-db problem is a known bug in dpkg, will be fixed in the next upload.


Andreas