Legacy driver package missing from Debian Stretch...?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 07:48:05AM -0500, Yvan Laguë wrote:
> HI from Quebec City, Canada...
> 
> I am running Debian testing (Stretch) with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT video
> card, using the proprietary legacy driver usually provided by the
> nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver package, which seems no longer available in the
> non-free branch of the Debian Stretch repository...?
> 
> On a regular update of my system last Friday or Saturday, that package was
> automatically removed from my system.
> 
> I seem unable to reinstall the package from the unstable repository, because
> of a dependency problem related to the xserver-xorg-core package... (
> version installed is: 2:1.19.0-2 but version 2:1.18.99 would be required,
> and does not seems available.)
> 
> Is this a temporary problem, or has support for the legacy driver been
> dropped from Debian Stretch...?

Until Nvidia releases an updated 340.x driver supporting the new x.org
version, there isn't anything that can be done about it.

-- 
Len Sorensen