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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

Cannot install nvidia driver - nvidia-96

Asked by Евгений Артемьев

On Ubuntu 12.04 trying to install nvidia driver for Geforce4 - "nvidia-96", but package has unresolved dependency "xorg-video-abi-10"

user@comp$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-96
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-96 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Did you search bug reports?
It's a known issue.

xorg-video-abi-10 is not available.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/nvidia-96

Rather try nouveau (standard driver).

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Евгений Артемьев (eugeniy-agat) said : 		#2

I resolve my problem by adding repository of ubunty 11.10 and installing old version of xserver-xorg-core.
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.10.0 supports xorg-video-abi-10 and driver installed normally.
But i think, that such serious bug should be fixed before release of "long-term support version". Why this bug not fixed while beta-testing?

I have done so:
1. Leave in /etc/apt/sources.list only one line
deb http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main restricted universe multiverse
2. Update package list
 sudo apt-get update
3. Remove current version
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-core
4. Install new (older) version of xorg and nvidia driver
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-video-vesa nvidia-96

It works, but it is ugly and wrong method.