On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free >> nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] >> Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s) >> Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-kernel-dkms. >> (Reading database ... 152853 files and directories currently installed.) >> Unpacking nvidia-kernel-dkms (from >> .../nvidia-kernel-dkms_195.36.31-6squeeze2_amd64.deb) ... >> Setting up nvidia-kernel-dkms (195.36.31-6squeeze2) ... >> Loading new nvidia-195.36.31 DKMS files... >> First Installation: checking all kernels... >> Building only for 2.6.32-5-amd64 >> Building initial module for 2.6.32-5-amd64 > > As I said, you are installing bits of nvidia 195 driver series. It's > right there in your frigging log. <swears bluely> > > That's for REAL OLD nvidia cards. You have a mess. Jerk it all out. Fire > up synaptic, search on nvidia, check on what you currently have > installed and remove it all, with great prejudice, fear and loathing.
Okay. Done that - "Mark(ed) for complete removal". > Your machine is somehow "sullied" and the only cure with be to drag it > all out of the pot like a screaming ?Mandrake Root at Hogwarts. Then, > follow the advice I laboriously pointed to and figure out how the > bumblebee scheme rocks your world. > > My GUESS is that it will install whatever it depends on. It is in the > repo, if you have non-free kicked on. Just be sure to have everything > else related to nvidia ripped out, as you have this hybrid from hell, > that should work a treat if the technology will play nice. So, I would > "think" that just apt-get install bumblebee will work. " :~# apt-get install bumblebee Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package bumblebee " " :~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20130223-14:06]/ squeeze main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20130223-14:06]/ squeeze main # deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main # deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main # deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free # deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian squeeze-backports main contrib non-free " And Debian 6 still cannot find the external monitor. A thought - since Ubuntu 12.04 successfully installed the nvVidia driver 3.31, how do I find, download, and install a .deb package within the Ubuntu repository? I am assuming that the driver is as a package in the Ubuntu repository - it was found via "Additional drivers", although Ubuntu 12.04 was successfully running the external monitor, both before and after the installation of the nvidia 3.31 driver. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8ohtg7mty5wt90ag-wkvl0zno5fv3zrtiebnxa2po1...@mail.gmail.com
