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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 17:24 +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:
> 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?

"nvidia-glx", and yes that should work. I fixed the wiki in the
meanwhile.

> 
> Am 02.11.17 um 14:22 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > 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
> > > 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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