Bug#880564: nvidia-driver: Hello i am using Debian Wheezy ;

[Luca Boccassi]

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On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 13:21 +0100, rich wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> installed debian wheezy on imac
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> could not install nvidia-driver withouth resorting to debian-
> backports;
> however, version 340.x seems unstable for graphic card nvidia gt 130;

Hi,

Could you please be more precise? What exactly was the problem?
According to Nvidia the GT 130 should work with the 304.xx series,
which is in Wheezy.

Note that there is no nvidia-driver metapackage in Wheezy, the entry
point should be the nvidia-glx metapackage IIRC.

>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> install nvidia-driver and nvidia-glfx via wheezy repositories
> 
> *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
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> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.11
>   APT prefers oldoldstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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