On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 22:06 +0530, B.V. Raghav wrote: > Hi, > > I am running debian stretch and I have nvidia driver version 340.96 > which supports opengl version 4.4 on the graphic card nvidia gtx 750 > ti. > > Out of curiosity I want to upgrade to opengl 4.5 --- which I think I > should do by installing the proprietary driver on the nvidia website. > > 1. By doing this, I think I risk the stability of my system. But I > dont > know how. Please enlighten. > > 2. If I somehow, gather enough know-how to convince myself that I can > take a calculated risk, is there a way to tell the debian packages, > that > I have fulfilled the requirements, and upgraded---thus, gracefully > remove the specific packages, without breaking dependency.
It's probably better to use the debian packages if you're not sure how to manually install the driver (and fix the system from the command line if something goes wrong). The good news is that there seems to be a newer nvidia driver in experimental: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/x11/nvidia-driver If that driver will provide OpenGL 4.5 you can enable the experimental repository and upgrade the driver (using -t experimental with apt-get). It will probably be safer and easier than doing it by hand. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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