On 9/29/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know much about the state of nvidia drivers in lenny, but to pin > your install you just need: > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; >
I went ahead and did that, fixed another problem (dynamic mmap running out of room), and installed (but haven't yet enabled) the new kernel 2.6.22-k7 from sid. But when I try to install nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source from sid, using aptitude -t unstable, I get a forest of installation problems which to me don't seem like I really want to do this yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-source Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: nvidia-glx xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-all The following packages have been automatically kept back: amarok-engines amarok-xine blinken capplets-data cdrdao compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-gtk compiz-plugins cpp-4.2 docbook-xml epiphany-browser evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common flac g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base gconf2 gconf2-common gimp-data gnome-about gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-utils gnome-icon-theme gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus gnome-mount gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-data gnome-themes gnome-user-guide gnome-utils gstreamer0.10-esd gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtkhtml3.14 hal iceweasel iceweasel-gnome-support indi kalzium kalzium-data kamera kanagram kbruch kcoloredit kdeedu kdeedu-data kdegraphics kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdvi keduca kfax kfaxview kgamma kghostview khangman kiconedit kig kiten klatin klettres klettres-data kmplayer-common kmplayer-plugin kmplot kmrml kolourpaint kooka kpdf kpercentage kpovmodeler kruler ksnapshot kstars kstars-data ksvg ktouch kturtle kuickshow kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwordquiz libapr1 libbluetooth2 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libc6-i686 libcamel1.2-10 libcompress-zlib-perl libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdb4.3++c2 libdbd-pg-perl libdecoration0 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8 libeel2-data libegroupwise1.2-13 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libflac++6 libflac8 libgconf2-4 libgimp2.0 libglib2-ruby libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-media0 libgnome-menu2 libgnome-window-settings1 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd1 libgnomekbdui1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgomp1 libgpgme11 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-dev libgphoto2-port0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtkhtml3.14-19 libgucharmap6 libhal-storage1 libhal1 libieee1284-3 libjline-java libkdeedu3 libkiten1 libkscan1 libltdl3 libmetacity0 libmozjs0d libmudflap0 libmudflap0-4.2-dev libnautilus-burn4 libnautilus-extension1 libnm-glib0 libnspr4-0d libpanel-applet2-0 libpaper1 libpcap0.8 libpcrecpp0 libperl5.8 libpoppler-glib1 libpoppler-qt1 libpoppler1 libpq-dev libpq5 libpulse0 libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt libsasl2-2 libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules libsensors3 libslang2-dev libslp1 libsnmp-base libstdc++6-4.2-dev libstroke0 libsys-syslog-perl libtheora-dev libtheora0 libthunar-vfs-1-2 libtrackerclient0 libvlc0 libwnck-common libxerces2-java libxine1 libxklavier11 libxul-common libxul0d liferea-xulrunner linux-libc-dev lp-solve metacity metacity-common mlock nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data notification-daemon openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-industrial openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-writer openssl p7zip-full pciutils perl-suid poppler-utils postgresql-8.2 postgresql-client-8.2 postgresql-contrib-8.2 postgresql-doc-8.2 python-glade2 python-gmenu python-gnome2 python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gobject python-gobject-dev python-gtk2 python-pyorbit python-uno qt3-dev-tools rpm shared-mime-info sylpheed-i18n tcl8.4 thunar thunar-data tk8.4 totem-xine ttf-opensymbol ucf update-manager vlc-nox x11-common xbase-clients xfce4-terminal xfwm4 xine-ui xorg xsane-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-i810 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-via xulrunner-gnome-support xutils yelp zoo The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: dpatch libpixman-1-0 patchutils The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following packages have been kept back: acpid amarok bsdmainutils bsdutils console-data coreutils curl debianutils docbook-xsl evolution-plugins fetchmail fvwm gimp gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gok gparted grub gxine initramfs-tools installation-report klibc-utils kmplayer laptop-detect libc6 libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libdb4.3 libdb4.4 libgcc1 libgtk2.0-dev libklibc libnewt0.52 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpaper-utils libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libqt3-mt-dev librpcsecgss3 librsvg2-ruby libslang2 libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtool libwnck-dev libxine1-ffmpeg liferea linux-image-2.6-k7 locales makedev menu-xdg mount mtp-tools myspell-en-us nfs-common nvidia-settings openoffice.org openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib postgresql-doc python-gtk2-dev python-newt python-support strace sylpheed totem-mozilla tzdata usbutils util-linux uw-imapd vlc whiptail xlibmesa-gl-dev xsane The following NEW packages will be installed: dpatch libpixman-1-0 nvidia-kernel-source patchutils The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo 1 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 33 to remove and 374 not upgraded. Need to get 10.9MB of archives. After unpacking 11.2MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-video-all: Depends: xserver-xorg-video-apm but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-ark but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-ati but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-chips but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-cirrus but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-cyrix but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-dummy but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-glint but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-i128 but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-i740 but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-imstt but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-mga but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-neomagic but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-newport but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nsc but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nv but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-rendition but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-s3 but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-s3virge but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-savage but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-sis but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-sisusb but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-tdfx but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-tga but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-trident but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-tseng but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-vesa but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-vga but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-voodoo but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-vmware but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-video-v4l but it is not installable xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-1.0 which is a virtual package. Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input which is a virtual package. nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-100.14.19 which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: xserver-xorg-video-all Keep the following packages at their current version: nvidia-glx [Not Installed] Upgrade the following packages: xserver-xorg [1:7.2-5 (testing, now) -> 1:7.3+2 (unstable)] xserver-xorg-input-evdev [1:1.1.5-3 (testing, now) -> 1:1.2.0~git20070819-3 (unstable)] xserver-xorg-input-kbd [1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1 (testing, now) -> 1:1.2.2-3 (unstable)] xserver-xorg-input-mouse [1:1.2.2-1 (testing, now) -> 1:1.2.2-6 (unstable)] xserver-xorg-input-synaptics [0.14.7~git20070517-2 (testing, now) -> 0.14.7~git20070706-1 (unstable)] xserver-xorg-video-intel [2:2.1.0-2 (testing, now) -> 2:2.1.1-4 (unstable)] xserver-xorg-video-via [1:0.2.2-2+b1 (testing, now) -> 1:0.2.2-5 (unstable)] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: nvidia-kernel-source recommends nvidia-glx (>= 100.14.19) Score is -362 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Needless to say, I think I will say 'q' at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]