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Möller

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Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 16

Dependency hell with kernel downgrade and nvidia

I been experiencing problems with my wireless connection since I upgraded to 2.6.36. Sometimes it works splendid and sometimes I can't even ping altough connected to the router. I recently cleaned my pacman-cache and therefor downloaded kernel26-2.6.35-8.1-something from ARM and want to try that out to see if that solves my problems.
However, I ran in to troubles. Nvidia 260.something yells that it needs kernel>=2.6.36 so I decide to downgrade that too, but now nvidia 256.something yells that it needs kernel<2.6.36. Where should I go from here? Or should I just sit tight, waiting for a kernelupdate to solve my problems?
Using Wicd by the way.

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Dependency hell with kernel downgrade and nvidia

Pretty straight forward, no? You can't install the old kernel because currently installed nvidia depends on the new one, and vice versa.
If you want to downgrade, you will have to either skip dependency checks on installing the kernel, then install nvidia after that, or remove current nvidia, install old kernel, then install old nvidia driver.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: Dependency hell with kernel downgrade and nvidia

Or install both at the same time.

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hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Dependency hell with kernel downgrade and nvidia

Lol.
Thanks Allan, learned something today...