I have attempted to install the NVIDIA 256 series drivers from the JYA repo on a Lucid 64bit frontend.<div><br></div><div>I am aware of this mailing list thread, and have done what it says to do:</div><div><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/441476">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/441476</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have purged out everything with "nvidia" in the name. I'm getting this error during install:</div><div><br><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-256 nvidia-settings nvidia-256-kernel-source nvidia-256-modaliases </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Reading package lists... Done</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Building dependency tree </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Reading state information... Done</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Reading extended state information </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Initializing package states... Done</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">The following NEW packages will be installed:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> nvidia-glx-256 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Need to get 0B/36.4MB of archives. After unpacking 111MB will be used.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Writing extended state information... Done</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">(Reading database ... 200466 files and directories currently installed.)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Unpacking nvidia-glx-256 (from .../nvidia-glx-256_256.35-0ubuntu12_amd64.deb) ...</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.</font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-256_256.35-0ubuntu12_amd64.deb (--unpack):</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libGL.so', which is also in package libgl1-mesa-dev 0:7.7.1-1ubuntu3</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Processing triggers for man-db ...</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_NZ.utf8.cache...</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Processing triggers for python-support ...</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Errors were encountered while processing:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-256_256.35-0ubuntu12_amd64.deb</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">A package failed to install. Trying to recover:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Reading package lists... Done </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Building dependency tree </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Reading state information... Done</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Reading extended state information </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Initializing package states... Done</font></div></div><div><br></div></div><div>I'm a bit nervous about uninstalling libg11-mesa-dev - it seems a bit daft seeing as everything works fine with the 195 series driver. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Is anyone else using the 256 series driver?</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div>