Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/08 06:13, andy wrote: [snip] > > OK I attempted to update my nVidia driver this weekend as I said I would > earlier this last week. Good for you! > First, I downloaded the latest nVidia installer for my card, which is a > nVidia GeForce 850

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-20 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:13:50PM +0100, andy wrote: > On the GRUB menu, several kernels are now listed - the current one and > then the 2.6.25-x kernel. Because the /boot/grub/menu.lst will > automatically load after about 5 seconds, how would I go about *safely* > removing the other kerne

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-20 Thread andy
andy wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 04:10:57 pm andy wrote: Stackpole, Chris wrote: Well I can't guarantee that it will all be smooth sailing when using Sid packages. It should work, but obviously mileage varies. You do not want to do an apt-get upgrade or anyt

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-15 Thread andy
Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 04:10:57 pm andy wrote: Stackpole, Chris wrote: Well I can't guarantee that it will all be smooth sailing when using Sid packages. It should work, but obviously mileage varies. You do not want to do an apt-get upgrade or anything like tha

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Monday 14 July 2008 04:10:57 pm andy wrote: > Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > > > > Well I can't guarantee that it will all be smooth sailing when using Sid > > packages. It should work, but obviously mileage varies. You do not want > > to do an apt-get upgrade or anything like that but just a si