Bug#842418: nvidia-driver fails to install

[Nigel Horne]

Package: nvidia-driver
Severity: normal

My nvidia card has stopped working in anything other than 1024x768 mode
since Linux 4.5.  Seeing as this makes my desktop unusuable I thought I'd
ditch the nouveau driver and try the nvidia driver.

However that won't install

apt-get install  nvidia-driver 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not installable
                 PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 367.44-3) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 367.44-3) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 367.44-3) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 367.44-3) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 367.44-3) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 367.44-3) but it is not going to be installed or
                          nvidia-kernel-367.44
                 Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable
                 Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 367) but it is not installable
                 Recommends: nvidia-persistenced but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)