Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-16 Thread A J Stiles
[[ slightly off-topic ]] On Wednesday 16 Apr 2008, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > "The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do > nothing." > - Edmund Burke Does anyone else think it's "interesting" how this quote cropped up in a thread about the way some users' machines (a

Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-16 Thread Adam Stiles
[[ slightly off-topic ]] On Wednesday 16 Apr 2008, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > "The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do > nothing." > - Edmund Burke Does anyone else think it's "interesting" how this quote cropped up in a thread about the way some users' machines (a

Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:28:45PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Not anymore. I installed nvidia driver from sid on my lenny machine. No > problems. > > It was modified :) Excellent. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Fwd: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Maximiliano Marin Bustos
-- Forwarded message -- From: Maximiliano Marin Bustos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:30 PM Subject: Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix To: Alexandru Cardaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Apr

Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: >> Current issues >> >> Testing users: NVIDIA packages are currently not in testing due to >> lack of maintainance, a Linux bug and X server 1.4's ABI change. >> Filipus Klutiero plans to update the document when the situation is >> fixed. In the meant

RE: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
> > If you take the source package from unstable, change the dependancy > version for xorg to the version in testing and I think a couple of other > build dependancies, and then build the package, it installs and runs > just fine. At least I think that's what I did a few weeks ago. > Did y

Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:59:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I have been reading the debian nvidia howto and I noticed the following > comment: > > ** > > Current issues > > Testing users: NVIDIA packages are currently not in testing due to lack of > maintainance,

can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear folks, I have been reading the debian nvidia howto and I noticed the following comment: ** Current issues Testing users: NVIDIA packages are currently not in testing due to lack of maintainance, a Linux bug and X server 1.4's ABI change. Filipus Klutiero plans to upd