Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-03 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> > Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, and > > auto-download from Nividia's site, so it makes no difference. > > It certainly does make a difference. I was not criticising Debian > packages/maintainers, merely the nature of the Nvidia drviers. As far as supporting

Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-03 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I had the very same problem upgrading. After some fiddling I simply installed the original deb I had produced by the nvidia-glx-src package, the I removed this package before installing the next one produced by a slightly later version of the nvidia-glx-src package, and of course the tarball(s)

Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-02 Thread Jon Masters
On 02 Sep 2001 19:20:32 -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > > > On 02 Sep 2001 21:29:56 +0100, David wrote: > > > > > Just use the drivers from nVidia. > > > > ...and encourage a company to continue releasing non-Free software. > > Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, an

Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-02 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> On 02 Sep 2001 21:29:56 +0100, David wrote: > > > Just use the drivers from nVidia. > > ...and encourage a company to continue releasing non-Free software. Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, and auto-download from Nividia's site, so it makes no difference. And,

Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-02 Thread Jon Masters
On 02 Sep 2001 21:29:56 +0100, David wrote: > Just use the drivers from nVidia. ...and encourage a company to continue releasing non-Free software. --jcm

Re: nvidia-glx and dpkg-divert

2001-09-02 Thread David
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