> Yes it should be made clearer, if you are on amd64 and want the 32 bit > libraries, not all packages should be installed. > > Basically you'll want to install libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 (or > nvidia-driver-libs-i386 depending on the branch) and their dependencies. > > I've updated the wiki.
Thanks! But that isn't the problem. fyi, I've switched the test system from i386 to amd64, but the basic problem remains. Maybe I should also tell you some things about my system setup: The test system is Jessie/amd64 on a USB stick. It is currently plugged into a computer with a GT218 chip. I know this isn't supportd by 367 anymore, but I merely want to make sure the driver installation works fine, because later I want to plug the USB stick into a computer with a GTX 1070 card. I only have access to this actual target computer sporadically, hence the test system. What I did was to install Jessie's nvidia-driver and the X-Server works. I wanted to use this package list as a template for what I actually need from 367: # dpkg -l | grep nvidia ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.5.1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider ii libegl1-nvidia:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL libraries ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries ii libgles1-nvidia:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x libraries ii libgles2-nvidia:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x libraries ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library ii nvidia-alternative 340.96-1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider ii nvidia-driver 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage ii nvidia-driver-bin 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20141201+1 amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer ii nvidia-kernel-common 20141201+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source ii nvidia-modprobe 340.46-1 amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes ii nvidia-settings 340.46-2 amd64 tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-support 20141201+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver Since apt's dependency resolution isn't available with the self-made packages, I then wanted to replace all these packages at once via dpkg, which failed due to dependency problems. To track these down, I wanted to atomize the process. nvidia-driver seemed to be a good starting point, however it complains during the installation: # dpkg -i nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb dpkg: regarding nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb containing nvidia-driver, pre-dependency problem: nvidia-driver pre-depends on nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343) nvidia-legacy-check is not installed. dpkg: error processing archive nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb (--install): pre-dependency problem - not installing nvidia-driver Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb So I successfully installed nvidia-legacy-check first: # dpkg -i nvidia-legacy-check_367.27-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-legacy-check. (Reading database ... 131797 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack nvidia-legacy-check_367.27-1_amd64.deb ... *** The following unsupported devices are present in the machine: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] [10de:0a64] (rev a2) Unpacking nvidia-legacy-check (367.27-1) ... Setting up nvidia-legacy-check (367.27-1) ... Then I tried to install nvidia-driver, which failed: # dpkg -i nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 131811 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-driver (367.27-1) over (340.96-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/DEBIAN/control', which is also in package nvidia-legacy-check 367.27-1 Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb >From the output I believe Andreas is right, and that something went wrong during the package-building process: > something went amiss when building the packages, the /DEBIAN directory > should never be part of the package that gets installed in the > filesystem (it just belongs into the control archive). Now there actually is a /DEBIAN directory on my system: # ls -l /DEBIAN/ total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 702 Jul 9 19:45 control -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 480 Jul 9 19:45 md5sums -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206 Jul 9 19:45 postrm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4473 Jul 9 19:45 preinst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1335 Jul 9 19:45 templates I should probably note, that although I have some experience with svn in general and that I've (re)built packages with debuild before, this is the first time I use debian/rules and svn-buildpackage. So I don't fully understand what I'm doing here, which is why I strictly stuck to the wiki-instructions.
