[solved] For cards needing nvidia-legacy-340xx-*: beware of current d-u

[michaa7]

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 .

# 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/ 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/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
     340.65-2 0
        500 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?

[musca]

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


greetings
musca