Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

From: David Fox <dfox94085(at)gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 21:17:14 EDT

On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Have you run apt-get update, and is your mirror up to date? I just
> switched to
> 2.6.21 from 2.6.22 an hour ago and had no problem with the same version of
> the nvidia-kernel-source.

Sure have. I'm using ftp.debian.org
, and I just went there and found under debian/pool/n this stuff: I ran apt-get update (or rather aptitude update) yesterday, and updated a few things in the
process.

Looking at a debian ftp site that I use (#1 listing in my sources.list) I see:

debian/pool/non-free/n > ls -l nvi*

drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jul 7 08:35 nvidia-graphics-drivers
drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Dec 7 2006 nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy
drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 21 20:34 nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx
drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 21 20:34 nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx
drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 22 08:42

nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx-modules-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 25 20:30 nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx-modules-i386 drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 25 20:30 nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 25 20:30 nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-i386 drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 27 08:34 nvidia-graphics-legacy-modules-amd64

drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 27 08:34 nvidia-graphics-legacy-modules-i386
drwxr-xr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 27 08:34 nvidia-graphics-modules-amd64
drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jun 27 08:34 nvidia-graphics-modules-i386
drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Nov 21 2006 nvidia-modules-i386

Note there is no "nvidia-kernel-source".

Poking around with various 'apt-cache policy' commands on some of those files, all I get are "unable to locate package such and such" errors. I've tried nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx.

If it is in 'pool" that doesn't necessarily mean that these files are in "testing", does it? OTOH, look at the file dates.

The "why is package X not in testing" page does have some info - says there is no new version in testing, and is trying to add, not update.

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Received on Tue Jul 31 21:17:42 2007