nvidia-glx is a package, created from the nvidia-graphics-drivers source
package. nvidia-graphics-drivers contains the binary .run files from
nvidia.com plus some scripting voodoo used in package creation.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/nvidia-graphics-drivers shows
the four packages created from this source package.
"m-a a-i nvidia" does the following:
> ...
The "nvidia-glx" package depends on nvidia-kernel-$NVIDIAVERSION -
however, this package doesn't actually exist. It's a virtual package,
which is provided by nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)_$NVIDIAVERSION.deb
Hence nvidia-glx won't install unless you run "m-a a-i nvidia" first, in
order to provide the kernel module package.
thanks for perfect explanation.
actually, where does /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so come
from? (i hope i wrote the path correctly) is it part of the binary files
from nvidia.com? 'apt-file search' didn't reveal anything relevant.
best regards,
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