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Offline michaa7

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(solved) nvidia (geforce 6xxx,7xxx)
« on: 2013/05/14, 10:29:23 »
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Sorry for the noise. It was completely my misunderstanding of the situation. All is fine, libgl1-nvidia-alternatives, libglx-nvidia-alternatives have to go with nvidia v 304.88-3.

Ignore the following.

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(I don't understand this situation but we should wait:)
Edit: we need to d-u manually the nvidia packages:

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# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -d
...
Paketaktualisierung (Upgrade) wird berechnet... Fertig
Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives libglx-nvidia-alternatives
Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert (Upgrade):
 ... nvidia-alternative nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms ...


and
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# apt-cache show nvidia-alternative
Package: nvidia-alternative
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Version: 313.30-1
Installed-Size: 156
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg>
Architecture: i386
Depends: glx-alternative-nvidia (>= 0.2), libgl1-nvidia-alternatives (>= 275.09.07-4), libglx-nvidia-alternatives (>= 275.09.07-4)
Breaks: libgl1-nvidia-glx (<< 275.09.07-2), nvidia-glx (<< 275.09.07-2)

but version
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# apt-cache policy libgl1-nvidia-alternatives
libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:
  Installiert:           304.88-2

is installed.

OTAH, there is this situation:
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# apt-cache policy  nvidia-alternative
nvidia-alternative:
  Installiert:           304.88-2
  Installationskandidat: 304.88-3


Summery: the situation for nvidia geforce 6xxx/7xxx is a mess as nvidia does *not* care about the right dependencies for those chips. We have to install the needed packages *manually* and take care to *manually update* those packages and then mark them to be hold.

Any advice to automagically d-u those packages is welcome.
Ok, you can't code, but you still might be able to write a bug report for Debian's sake

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RE: nvidia (geforce 6xxx,7xxx)
« Reply #1 on: 2013/05/14, 11:05:46 »
Nvidia has nothing to do with debian packaging, you have to poke the maintainer.
Tha package name for 304-series drivers schould include a "legacy", since those cards are legacy cards now.
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Offline michaa7

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Re: RE: nvidia (geforce 6xxx,7xxx)
« Reply #2 on: 2013/05/14, 11:23:47 »
Quote from: "towo"
Nvidia has nothing to do with debian packaging ...
Thanks for this claification, I didn't know.
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... you have to poke the maintainer.
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I think I will.

EDIT://
I think I'll wait for a while because it seems as yet not all needed packages (v 304.88-3) are built which currently causes some other nvidia packages (libgl1-nvidia-alternatives libglx-nvidia-alternatives) to be removed.

EDIT://
Solved, see first post.
Ok, you can't code, but you still might be able to write a bug report for Debian's sake