I've got a slew of old machines with Gforce 6xx cards in them and I attempt to install the older legacy driver, but lots of messages similar to the following:
This is in old-stable and I don't want to update those machines. Thoughts?
I then attempted to install the vendor supplied drivers directly from nvidia but Debian isn't very friendly toward that packaging channel. Seems it wants me to not only install all the kernel source for "exactly my kernel version", but also to build the kernel so that the version.h file exists. Not interested in jumping thru those hoops.
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den:~$ Z apt-get install nvidia-alternativeReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-alternative : PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 396) but it is not going to be installed Depends: glx-alternative-nvidia (>= 1.2) but it is not installableE: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.den:~$ I then attempted to install the vendor supplied drivers directly from nvidia but Debian isn't very friendly toward that packaging channel. Seems it wants me to not only install all the kernel source for "exactly my kernel version", but also to build the kernel so that the version.h file exists. Not interested in jumping thru those hoops.
Statistics: Posted by kent_dorfman766 — 2024-05-11 01:52 — Replies 2 — Views 27