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Title: [solved] For cards needing nvidia-legacy-340xx-*: beware of current d-u
Post by: michaa7 on 2015/04/19, 00:43:52
I have one of those nvidia cards which should *not* update to 346.59 . But the current update would install 346.59-1.siduction.1 .

Quote# apt-cache policy nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver:
  Installiert:           340.76-1.siduction.1
  Installationskandidat: 346.59-1.siduction.1
  Versionstabelle:
     346.59-1.siduction.1 0
        500 http://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/fixes/ (http://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/fixes/) unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
*** 340.76-1.siduction.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     340.76-1 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ (http://http.debian.net/debian/) unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
     340.65-2 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ (http://http.debian.net/debian/) testing/non-free amd64 Packages


So it seems we now need to hold our nvidia packages until there are nvidia-legacy-340xx-* packages.

Or is there anything else we could or should do?
Title: Re: For cards needing nvidia-legacy-340xx-*: beware of current d-u
Post by: musca on 2015/04/19, 01:23:22
hello micha,

you are right, you need the legacy package. Why didn't you install it?
Please don't expect that apt will decide which driver to use.
apt will never upgrade from the "nvidia-driver" package to the  nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver package.

The install procedure is in the other nvidia thread, where you already posted.
see http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5447.msg44469#msg44469 (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5447.msg44469#msg44469)


greetings
musca