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.