Hi,
nvidia-glx depends of nvidia-kernel
If you have a CUSTOM kernel you must compile your own nvidia kernel
with nvidia-kernel-source
I hope this help...
On 10/14/06, anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: nvidia-glx
Version: 1.0.8774-5
Severity: important
This is not a problem everyone will encounter, but it renders the package
unusable for me so I decided to file a bug report.
I have an older system, dating from the era when Debian used 2.2 kernels, with
a small /boot partition. This was not a problem when I used 2.2 and 2.4
kernels, but with 2.6 came initrd and growing kernel sizes, so now
linux-image-2.6-k7 can't even install because its image is too large to fit on
my /boot. I use a custom-compiled 2.6 kernel for specific pieces of legacy
hardware that I've trimmed down to where it fits, but because
nvidia-kernel-2.6-k7 depends on linux-image, nvidia-glx now breaks when I try
to install it because it can't satisfy that dependency.
I don't know if there's a good solution to this problem, since I don't know
enough about why packages have the dependencies they do. I encountered it when
I tried to install the latest version of nvidia-glx in unstable, because that
depends on nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774, which in turn depends on one of the
nvidia-kernel-2.6.18 packages with their linux-image dependencies. I don't
know why it didn't occur before, because a brief look at the change-logs
indicates the linux-image dependency was inserted before; however, I didn't
notice it until this version. I'm used to hand-compiling the nvidia drivers,
and I assume this change is meant to further automate the process, which is a
good thing for most users but unfortunately apparently not for me. Should I be
using nvidia-legacy-glx? My system was working fine with the 1.0.8774 until
1.0.8774-5.
-- Package-specific info:
uname -r:
Linux tyr 2.6.12 #1 Sun Feb 26 19:15:59 EST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
/proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.3 20060212
(prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-9)) #1 Sun Feb 26 19:15:59 EST 2006
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]
(rev a3)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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