-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/14/08 14:32, andy wrote: [snip] > > I don't mind installing more packages than what I had thought I needed: > I am quite happy to believe that apt knows more than I do about what is > best for my machine!! > > I was just concerned that with my sources.list opened up to a Sid > repository temporarily for the purposes of this operation - to retrieve > a kernel header for the nVidia driver - that if apt downloaded and > installed a whole bunch of other packages that I would end up in the > sticky situation of having a mixed set of libraries. I have a lot of > work that I need to get on with, so the last thing I needed was an > unstable system because I'd gotten Lenny and Sid libraries all confused. > Hence my reluctance to walk down that particular road without getting a > clearer sense of what was going on. > > If it is a case of allowing apt to do its thing, then who am I to argue > with that. I would like to use the 2-6-25 kernel, but to be honest am > not wedded to needing to do so, so am relaxed about proceeding cautiously.
Andy, This is why I use the nvidia driver straight from nvidia.com. Of course, I boot directly into the console, and have no qualms about rebuilding the driver after upgrading the kernel... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh7uNQACgkQS9HxQb37XmdKfACgt3MpGnyfCuNynzRGcEqhK2lb 9WoAoIbJpxSPekrtWJKYlCfObxf/19ld =qWtq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
