In <20100329210712.2956c...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:33:48 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> i nvidia-glx-ia32 - NVIDIA binary driver 32bit libs >> >> Maybe? Make sure you get the version that matches your Xorg driver >> version. > >Sadly I can't get anything installed, I'm lost in version hell (there >seems to be a lot of that going on in unstable right now, I'm having >the same problem with kernel stuff). > >nvidia-glx-ia32 > > nvidia-glx-ia32: Depends: nvidia-kernel-190.53 but it is not > installable E: Broken packages
Ah, yes. The missing nvidia-kernel package. Sometimes unstable or testing or both are missing this package, or it is the wrong version. Stable usually has this package, but it is really just a convenience. Debian provides a great tool for out-of-tree kernel modules that are very sensitive to kernel versions. It's called module-assistant. Install the package of the same name via apt-get/aptitude. Now, module-assistant has a lot of features, and I encourage you to read the documentation. However, for the task of installing the nvidia kernel module for your currently running kernel, simply issue the command (m-a a-i nvidia) as root. That *still* might not get your the module you need if you are running a mixed system. This is because m-a depends on module-source packages [1] to provide the source for the out-of-tree module. It will automatically install such packages when they are available, but it just gets the "default" version (whatever apt-get/aptitude chooses by default). It also uses the kernel headers (and maybe source), but it is able to determine what versions of these to get because the kernel ABI is part of the package name. If you need a specific version of the module, install the appropriate module- source package before asking m-a to do the install. E.g. (aptitude install nvidia-kernel-source=190.53-2) You may be able to determine what package that is by reading the m-a logs, searching the web, or possibly reading the files under /var/cache/modass. Here's some information on my system, which I believe has OpenGL support in 32-bit applications run under wine: b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64 nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64: Installed: 190.53-2+2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 Candidate: 190.53-2+2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 Version table: *** 190.53-2+2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-source: Installed: 190.53-2 Candidate: 190.53-2 Version table: *** 190.53-2 0 500 http://127.0.0.1 unstable/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 173.14.09-5 0 900 http://127.0.0.1 stable/non-free Packages 700 http://127.0.0.1 testing/non-free Packages b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-ia32 nvidia-glx-ia32: Installed: 190.53-2 Candidate: 190.53-2 Version table: *** 190.53-2 0 500 http://127.0.0.1 unstable/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 173.14.09-5 0 900 http://127.0.0.1 stable/non-free Packages 700 http://127.0.0.1 testing/non-free Packages b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64 linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64: Installed: 2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 Candidate: 2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 Version table: *** 2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 0 800 http://127.0.0.1 lenny-backports/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy nvidia-glx nvidia-glx: Installed: 190.53-2 Candidate: 190.53-2 Version table: *** 190.53-2 0 500 http://127.0.0.1 unstable/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 173.14.09-5 0 900 http://127.0.0.1 stable/non-free Packages 700 http://127.0.0.1 testing/non-free Packages b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy xserver-xorg xserver-xorg: Installed: 1:7.3+20 Candidate: 1:7.3+20 Version table: 1:7.5+5 0 700 http://127.0.0.1 testing/main Packages 500 http://127.0.0.1 unstable/main Packages *** 1:7.3+20 0 900 http://127.0.0.1 stable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy wine wine: Installed: 1.0.1-1 Candidate: 1.0.1-1 Version table: 1.1.24-2 0 300 http://127.0.0.1 experimental/main Packages 1.0.1-2 0 700 http://127.0.0.1 testing/main Packages 500 http://127.0.0.1 unstable/main Packages *** 1.0.1-1 0 900 http://127.0.0.1 stable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status HTH. NB: You will need to use m-a to rebuild a new version of the nvidia kernel module whenever you install a kernel with a different ABI. There's no guarantee that m-a will succeed with an "unusual" mix of kernel and module version; my mix (backports kernel with unstable/non-free module) is certainly NOT supported. [1] These are not Debian source packages (.dsc etc.) but Debian binary packages (.deb) that install the source code needed to compile out-of-tree kernel modules. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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