I noticed when I dist-upgrade a testing system it now wants to remove nvidia-glx. In case others are wondering what's going on, here's what I think I found. And, if you have thoughts on how to proceed, I'd love to hear them.
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.1.1-10 (the one that is now in testing, but not yet on my system) conflicts with xserver-xorg-video My current nvdia-glx 1.0.8762-2 provides xserver-xorg-video. The one in unstable, 1.0.8776-1 provides xserver-xorg-video-1.0. There is currently no version of nvidia-glx in testing, apparently because of an RC bug that is being kept open specifically to prevent migration (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363324). Possibly related to that, the stock builds of nvidia-kernel-2.6.xx are not in testing. Use of the unstable versions implies using a 2.6.18 kernel, which is also not in testing because of RC bugs. I'm thinking the best way to proceed might be to build an nvidia-kernel package to go with the current testing kernel (2.6.17--is that the one that will be released?). Some of the 2.6.18 linux kernel bugs make me hesitant to install it, which seems like the other possibility. Or perhaps if I wait, things will get sorted out? Until then, there's a large overhang of to-be-updated packages. Aside from being ugly, that means I'd be missing some security fixes. If I did an upgrade (rather than dist-upgrade) there would be fewer packages held back, but the result of that looks as if it would partially update core systems (xorg and KDE), and I suspect the result could be a bit flakey. Note that the nvidia-related packages (nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-*, etc) are non-free, since they rely on some binary only code. There is a free driver known as nv. Unfortunately, the latter not only has poor acceleration, it doesn't work at all on one of my systems (at least when I last tried, quite a few months ago). -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
