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

Richard Kuenz richard.kuenz at web.de
Thu Nov 2 16:24:31 UTC 2017


Thank you ,

i did try to install according to Official Debian Wiki for NvidiaGraphics,

it points to

Nvidia-Driver in English and Italian Version of Wiki for 304.+


Should i just replace Nvidia-Driver with Nvidia-Glfx?




Am 02.11.17 um 14:22 schrieb 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 ***
>>
>>
>> -- 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
>>
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