On 29 October 2016 at 16:02, Nigel Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/29/2016 10:54 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> >> On 29 October 2016 at 10:31, Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 28, 2016 23:57, "Nigel Horne" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Package: nvidia-driver >>>> Severity: normal >>>> >>>> My nvidia card has stopped working in anything other than 1024x768 mode >>>> since Linux 4.5. Seeing as this makes my desktop unusuable I thought >>>> I'd >>>> ditch the nouveau driver and try the nvidia driver. >>>> >>>> However that won't install >>>> >>>> apt-get install nvidia-driver >>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>> Building dependency tree >>>> Reading state information... Done >>>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >>>> or been moved out of Incoming. >>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >>>> >>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>>> nvidia-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not >>>> installable >>>> PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343) but it is not >>>> going to be installed >>>> Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 367.44-3) but it is not >>>> going to be installed >>>> Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 367.44-3) but it is not >>>> going to be installed >>>> Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 367.44-3) but it >>>> is >>>> not going to be installed >>>> Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 367.44-3) but it is >>>> not >>>> going to be installed >>>> Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 367.44-3) but it is not >>>> going to be installed >>>> Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 367.44-3) but it is not >>>> going to be installed or >>>> nvidia-kernel-367.44 >>>> Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable >>>> Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 367) but it is not >>>> installable >>>> Recommends: nvidia-persistenced but it is not >>>> installable >>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- System Information: >>>> Debian Release: stretch/sid >>>> APT prefers testing >>>> APT policy: (500, 'testing') >>>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >>>> >>>> Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU cores) >>>> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) >>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >>>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >>>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It says there nvidia-support is not installable, can you please try to >>> install that package individually and report what the error is? > > > Thanks for your response. Here is what I get, I hope it helps: > > # apt-get install nvidia-support > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package nvidia-support is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'nvidia-support' has no installation candidate >>> >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Luca Boccassi > > > -Nigel [ CC'ing the bug, don't know why the other e-mail triggered as spam! > ]
That is strange, the package is there: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/nvidia-support Do you have contrib enabled in your apt sources.list? Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
