Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Tue July 31 2007 18:17, David Fox wrote:

> 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".

Your right. I just had a look at packages.debian.org and had a look for it. It isn't in testing at the moment. I'm not sure why.

> 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.

That's right, they may be in stable or unstable.

> 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.

I also have unstable lines in my sources.list so that must be where I got them from. If you don't mind doing the same that may work better for you. I always add the following to my /etc/apt/apt.conf so I don't get stuff from unstable unexpectedly (mind you I was unaware I got the nvidia stuff from unstable!)

• /etc/apt/apt.conf -- APT::Default-Release "testing";
• end --

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