Comment 62 for bug 741930

Good to see something is moving. For the time being I'll stay with 10.04
LTS...

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:16 AM, linusND <email address hidden> wrote:

> removing nouveau doesnt seem to make any difference. I have tried a
> number of dpkg commands, hoping to display the echos from the postinst
> script, but I cant seem to find anything useful.
>
> for example:
> sudo dpkg -D200 -i nvidia-96_96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1_i386.deb
>
> Any suggestions on which debug level to try, or is there another way to
> print the script text to the screen? I think it would be helpful in
> narrowing down where the script fails.
>
> Also I have tried running the postinst scrip from /var/lib/dpkg/info.
> sh nvidia-96.postinst only returns
> postinst called with unknown argument `'
>
> I am reluctant to remove set -e from the script, but if someone thinks
> the result would be useful. I'll give it a try.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741930
>
> Title:
> [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met
>
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Package has broken dependencies that cannot be met.
> xorg-video-abi-8.0
> xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.8.99.905-1ubuntu3)
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Install Natty beta & do sudo apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade
> 2. Try sudo apt-get install nvidia-96 to get the error.
>
> (confirmed to still occur in beta 1).
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