On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:34:45 -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote:
>Hi Magnus!
>
>On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 20:59:13 -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote:
>> >Hi Magnus!
>> >
>> >On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've been trying to get Compiz to run on my Debian Sid system.  This is
>> >> the setup:
>> >> 
>> >[snip]
>> >
>> >You didn't say which nvidia driver you are using. I believe that compiz
>> >requires features that are only in the beta drivers fom the nvidia
>> >website. I think the current version is 9746.
>> >
>> >Download the driver from nvidia and install it.
>> >You will have to remove the nvidia-glx package or you will end up
>> >having to reinstall the driver after every reboot.
>> 
>> Ah, you mean that _checking_ if the driver is in Debian (experimental)
>> doesn't actually install it?  Damn, I thought it did... ;-)
>> 
>> Thanks for pointing it out to me!
>> 
>> Now I'm off to implement that package manager that does what I want
>> rather than what I tell it too...
>
>I'm not sure of the nvidia driver version in experimental. If it's
>8776 then it will not work.

It's 1.0.9746-2 and it seems to do it.

/M

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