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kjell

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From: Norway

Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 99

In search of older nvidia package.

In bit of a clutch atm.   Cant do the glibc update as I still have all the kernel modules in /lib.  I assume upgrading to > 3.4 moves these out of there.   I haven't upgraded from kernel 3.3 as the nvidia 302 package breaks suspend, and the 295-1 package requires 3.3 or less.  Seems to me the 295.53-2 package can be used with 3.4, however, seeing how the mirror with old cached package is gone (and I don't have this on my own pacman cache).  Is there anywhere else to get this package, or can someone who may have help me out.

Thanks,

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: In search of older nvidia package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade#ARM

# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/nvidia-295.53-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/nvidia-295.53-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

But sticking to an older kernel is bad practice, IMO. Exploits and security wholes would pile up over time, leaving you more vulnerable.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-07-19 18:49:42)

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kjell

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From: Norway

Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 99

Re: In search of older nvidia package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade#ARM

# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/nvidia-295.53-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/nvidia-295.53-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

But sticking to an older kernel is bad practice, IMO. Exploits and security wholes would pile up over time, leaving you more vulnerable.

Um, that's the whole point of this, upgrading the kernel.  Thanks for the link.

madprops

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 26

Re: In search of older nvidia package.

warning: cannot resolve "nvidia-utils=295.53", a dependency of "nvidia"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      nvidia

Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: In search of older nvidia package.

# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/nvidia-utils-295.53-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/nvidia-utils-295.53-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,961

Re: In search of older nvidia package.

those are compiled for older kernels.

PKGBUILD for nvidia 295.59 :
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 188da6fa95

PKGBUILD for nvidia-utils 295.59 :
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … f4d4fee639

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