[solved]nVidia driver - replacement ?

[Spaceferret]

As this is my first post on siduction forum I wish to thank developers for the tremendous job they accomplished creating this wonderful distro .
And now on to business .
Today's d-u gives me

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nvidia-driver nvidia-glx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx libusbmuxd2 libxatracker1
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative
 I have an older nVidia 6350 card, is that a driver replacement or rather dependencies problem ? Should I go ahead and let those packages go ?

[thunderrd]

I have the same type of output, and am also confused as to what is going on with the nvidia blob.

In my case it is a 9600GT, which is a supported card.  I *must* use the nvidia-driver (nouveau not an option) and have to have CUDA support as well, so I am currently at a loss what to do.

[towo]

Since nvidia-driver version 304.xx is a legacy driver, debian has adapted the name-sheme to fit the drivers version upstream.
So the replacement is normal.

[thunderrd]

Thanks towo.

At what version number does it cease to be "legacy", and what is the version number of the latest non-legacy nvidia-driver available for me?

I am running 325.xx + kernel 3.9.11 on my other [gentoo] linux machine with no renaming of the package, so it is a bit confusing for me.

[towo]

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/533434/linux/current-graphics-driver-releases/

[thunderrd]

lolz, you posted as I was editing my above post ^^

I have to figure out how to instruct siduction to install the latest non-legacy version, *methinks*

[schmimat]

Hi,

I have the following problem:

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Entpacken von libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx:amd64 (aus libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx_304.108-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx_304.108-2_amd64.deb (--install):
 Versuch, »/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.304.108« zu überschreiben, welches auch in Paket libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 304.108-1 ist
dpkg-deb: Fehler: Unterprozess einfügen wurde durch Signal (Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe)) getötet
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx_304.108-2_amd64.deb

I solved it with this:

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dpkg -i --force-all libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx_304.108-2_amd64.deb

Was this the right way? Are there other solutions?

Thanks

mfG Matthias

[Spaceferret]

Thank you towo.