Re: [Hampshire] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 conflicts with nvi…

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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 conflicts with nvidia-glx 1.0.x
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:49:36 +0100
Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:39:48AM +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> > I tried to update my Debian unstable system today and find that
> > if I want to upgrade my xserver-xorg bits then I have to lose my
> > nvidia-glx (conflict between xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 and
> > xserver-video-1.0) and there doesn't seem to be a new nvidia-glx
> > source available. Does anyone know what's going on? I couldn't
> > find anything online but I guess I'm just looking in the wrong
> > places.
>
>    This is typical of the sort of problems that one can have with
> Debian unstable. (Just so you know it's not a one-off kind of
> thing).


Yeah things will break, but it doesn't happen toooo often*, and if you
use proprietary drivers you can't then complain it is Debian's
fault :-)

*not lately anyway, IME

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John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package