On Tuesday 30 May 2006 13:12, Jonathan Pearce wrote: > I am running etch. I installed the legacy nvidia driver to work around > a bug with the 8178 release. I am ready to move back to the current > version, but I can't sort out the situation with the etch & the nvidia > drivers. > > Some googling turns up nothing except the fact that the nvidia drivers > aren't working on etch: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#head-783b4c1ece4093dca2810eeff >7da15c17a2b031a > > I tried downloading the unstable driver packages and doing dpkg -i. > The unstable drivers depend on xorg 1.7.0, so that was a bust. > > I was hoping to keep my driver installed 'the debian way' rather than > install the package from Nvidia. Does anyone know how best to install > the nvidia graphics driver on etch?
Try the line(s) in your sources.list mentioned on the maintainers page (1) use something less than the -3 version of the 8756 driver IIRC to not have the dependency on Xorg 7. (1) http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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