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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. -- 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