Followup-For: Bug #296907
Package: nvclock

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I have spoken with the nvclock upstream developers, who say that nvclock does NOT require nvidia's binary-only driver in order to operate, but some functionality is missing without it (no OpenGl control, only runs as root, uses /dev/mem instead of /dev/nvidia*). As a result, I've made a small patch to debian/control, to fix the package description and place a Recommends: on nvidia-glx.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

--- control.old	2005-04-12 13:53:06.000000000 +0000
+++ control	2005-04-12 13:56:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,26 +8,29 @@
 Package: nvclock
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Recommends: nvidia-glx
 Description: Allows you to overclock your nVidia card under GNU/Linux
  This program allows you to overclock your nVidia chip based video card. 
- You need to have the official nVidia drivers installed.
+ The official binary nVidia drivers are required for some functionality.
  .
  This is the console version.
 
 Package: nvclock-gtk
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Recommends: nvidia-glx
 Description: Allows you to overclock your nVidia card under GNU/Linux
  nvclock allows you to overclock your nVidia chip based video card.
- You need to have the official nVidia drivers installed.
+ The official binary nVidia drivers are required for some functionality.
  .
  This is the GTK version.
 
 Package: nvclock-qt
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Recommends: nvidia-glx
 Description: Allows you to overclock your nVidia card under GNU/Linux
  nvclock allows you to overclock your nVidia chip based video card.
- You need to have the official nVidia drivers installed.
+ The official binary nVidia drivers are required for some functionality.
  .
  This is the Qt version.

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