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On 02/11/13 22:45, Philip Hudson wrote: > Extra points fail, guys. > > Seriously, anyone? Dammit, I hate riddles... and I hate being wrong too. But I don't mind being wrong, as long as someone can tell me why I was wrong so I don't make the same mistake again. In my defence, I'm one of those people with prodigious skills in literal thinking, and absolutely no ability to think laterally at all. Which is probably why I can't do cryptic crosswords but am good with computers. I thought about this while I was having a shower and came up with nothing. I've just ssh'd into the OpenBSD laptop/router at my parents, sent a WOL packet to their PC and booted the only Debian/Nvidia physical host I can think of that I have access to (only Ubuntu/Nvidia and Debian/Intel+AMD GPGPU physical hosts here) immediately. Curiously, running "sudo apt-get -t wheezy-backports dist-upgrade" on that box does have a weird result, despite: ghost@silo:~$ lspci | grep -i GeForce 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) So, this (Wheezy) machine has G92 card(s) that aren't on the exception list, i.e., they should be running the latest nvidia-glx and related packages - before upgrade it was 304.88 though (and yes, my Dad does have two GFX cards in SLI for his windows based FPS fragging). Pulling in the backports upgrades as well updated to nvidia-legacy-304-108, which is... odd. I didn't get the same warning as in your original email though. So, something strange is going down in Debian Wheezy + Nvidia driver land (although the box has survived a reboot with it's graphical drivers/environment perfectly intact) but I still don't get your original point. I also can't be bothered digging through the Debian bug tracker to find Beckmann's thread (I do know he is involved with Nvidia driver stuff though) whence this information presumably came from. Spill the beans then! Enquiring minds want to know... Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq