thinking of use latest nvidia on wheezy

[Ross Boylan]

Hi, nvidia packagers.  Thanks for your work, and happy new year.

I have a 980 Ti that I would like to use at a higher resolution than
1024x768.  My amd64 system is running wheezy.  Any tips on getting
this to work?  If it won't work, that would be a useful tip too.

I was thinking of combing the latest sources from nvidia, which seem
to be 352.63,* with the Debian packaging.  I see on
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787582 that getting
things working even on jessie has been difficult.

I'm also unclear where the project repository is.
https://sources.debian.net/src/nvidia-graphics-drivers/unstable/ and
messages on this list suggest it's in subversion, but
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian/README.source?revision=5451&view=markup
indicates using git.

I'm not a DD, and only want read access.

I suppose I could just execute the installer from nvidia, but then I'd
have no control over what it did and, I suspect, no reliable way to
back it out.

Ross Boylan

* Though I notice branches for 355 and 358 in the repo.