Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-17 Thread John Bleichert
On 07/17/2014 10:12 AM, John Bleichert wrote: The Nvidia drivers have been removed from testing since they are not compatible with xorg-server 1.16[1,2,3]. Stick to your current 1.15 X server or switch to nouveau. Were you talking about the release clients with the [1,2,3] - sorry, didn't

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-17 Thread John Bleichert
On 07/17/2014 01:49 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know how to fix it

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-17 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:49:51 +0200 schreef Sven Joachim : On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: > It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from > testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about > broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know how to fix it? The Nvidia drivers have been removed fro

Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Anyway, you've saved me from another evening of my six-year-old daughter > > being upset about not being able to play Tuxracer. > > Yikes! very important ... bad consequences :-) .. worst than rm -rf / - rm is fixable - kids are n

Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
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Re: Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared" - SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread David Bruce
> Right-- you need to install the nvidia-glx package too. That indeed was the problem. The part I can't understand is how nvidia-glx got uninstalled. As far as I can tell, it somehow got removed by a recent dist-upgrade, but I don't really understand that either, because I don't have any pack

Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

2004-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists. > > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK. > > Yes, it's there. > > > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not, > > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now ca

Re: Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

2004-11-12 Thread David Bruce
> First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko exists. > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK. Yes, it's there. > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not, > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now can X start? lsm

Re: nvidia driver "disappeared"

2004-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I had been using nvidia's accelerated driver (version 6106) plus kernel 2.6.8 > without trouble with Sid until Nov 10 (I had done a dist-upgrade the previous > evening). Now, X says the nvidia driver does not exist. I noticed that > there was a newer version of the nvidia driver (6629) as w