> I hope I am mistaken in this but without a solution I am bound to
> abandon debian
> which I will regret very much after so many years working with this fine
> distribution.
> Therefore I would be very glad to recieve hints/solutions to solve this
> problem.
Everybody else has covered me on the details of what's going on, so since I
haven't read any solution, I'll tell you what I do:
- First of all you need the apt-source package.
- Then you add the unstable deb-src to your sources.list: (here's mine)
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
- Update apt
- Next switch to a new directory where you wish to build the nvidia drivers
- Before you build them, you might need to draw a few more packages on which
nvidia driver sources depend:
apt-get build-dep nvidia-glx
- Finally, you can get and build the sources with:
apt-get -b source nvidia-glx
This should produce a brand new set of etch-backported nvidia drivers, version
1.0.8776.
regards,
Dimitris
PS: You shouldn't move away from Debian. There's nothing else out there :-)
(at least not that good)
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