Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

Peter Keel bugzilla at discordia.ch
Tue Apr 26 18:14:37 UTC 2016


* on the Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 07:27:17PM +0200, Floris wrote:
> There is a statement:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012918.html
> 
> the alternative is build the packages yourself:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012917.html
>  
> Please build the packages and report all the issues you have, so the
> maintainers can make a stable package.

Yes, "Download the run files (i386 and amd64) from Nvidia into that directory"
is not quite correct, you also need the .run for armv7l-gnueabihf, or the 
building will fail. 

So far so good, I'm now trying whether it runs. 

Kind Regards
Peter
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