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Re: [LUG] Debian and Nvidia driver

 

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> 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

Oh dear no. I can't have that. This is going to be a problem.

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