Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ariel writes: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> What are you trying to do? Run two cards in one machine using two >> different versions of the driver? That won't work. > Yes, exactly. It won't work because it can't, or because it's not written > to handle this (but could be)? I'm

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Ariel
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2010-09-07 11:47, Ariel wrote: I assume no one is current attempting to change this. But is it a goal for the future, or is it just too much trouble? (It would be nice, so I can have multiple monitors, since I already have the card. But then ag

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Beckmann writes: > On 2010-09-07 11:12, Ariel wrote: >> I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and >> nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and >> now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx. > How did you manage to install both? They s

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Ariel
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2010-09-07 11:12, Ariel wrote: I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx. How did you manage to install b

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2010-09-07 11:47, Ariel wrote: >>> And does this mean nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx and nvidia-glx can both be >>> installed at the same time? >> >> Not yet, but it makes it possible eventually. >> >>> (Although, that's probably not useful since the kernel module can't be.) >> >> Yeah, that's still a

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2010-09-07 11:12, Ariel wrote: > > I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and > nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and > now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx. How did you manage to install both? They should have been conflicting for

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Ariel
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Ariel writes: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: That's what I mean by own. As long as those diversions weren't removed, nvidia-glx should never have been installable, and if those diversions were removed, that should have been followed by re

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ariel writes: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> So you have old versions of both nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx >> installed, both of which predate the reworking of how the diversions >> are handled. I wonder how you managed to get both packages installed >> at the same time e

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Ariel
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Ariel writes: I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx. dpkg-divert: mismatch on package when removing `div

Bug#588590: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ariel writes: > I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and > nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and > now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx. > When I try to purge it, it says: > Removing nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx ... > Purging configura

Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

2010-09-07 Thread Ariel
I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx. When I try to purge it, it says: Removing nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx ... Purging configuration files for nvidia-g