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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Argh this is driving me nuts now. It's all very well Debian having this > free/non-free thing, so long as it doesn't blow up... > > I've literally just installed Debian onto a system for a friend, using > the network installation CD, so it should all be freshly downloaded > packages. I am trying to install the nvidia driver. > I've added non-free onto the ends of the lines in sources.list. > But it just won't have it. > Everything depends upon nvidia-kernel-common, which apparently doesn't > have an installation candidate. Is this my problem or is the repo broken? > I'm not sure, i've not succeeded in getting the official debian packages of the nvidia working. I've always resorted to installing via nvidia's own installer. Which is good fun when your kernel upgrades ;-o Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html