On Sunday 02 September 2001 5:31 pm, Andreas Tscharner wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > Since XFree86 4.1.x is in sid, I have a problem updating my system. > nvidia-glx (The binary driver from nvidia) conflicts with the new version > of XFree86. Therefore dselect (apt respectively) tries to remove > nvidia-glx, but this fails with: > > Removing nvidia-glx ... > dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to > when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to > /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1 by nvidia-glx' > found 'diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia-glx/libGL.so.1 > by nvidia-glx' > dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > [...] > > This happens after downloading the packages, before any package is > installed, so my system is not updated any more. > > What can I do? Please help. Just use the drivers from nVidia. I've had bother with the Debs in the past too and the 1.0-1251 drivers from nVidia just work. ;-)
They install correctly and all you have to do is edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as described in nVidia's readme. Simple. Good Luck! Cheers, David.
