Backporting nvidia-glx-177 to Hardy

[Alberto Milone]

On Saturday 11 October 2008 20:05:57 you wrote:
> Alberto,
>
> What are the chances that you could backport the Intrepid nvidia-glx-177
> package to Hardy using the Hardy 2.6.27 kernel package that I have on
> the kernel PPA at
>
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/ubuntu
>

Yes, of course I can backport 177. I'm not sure as to whether I can do it 
today (since it's 21:28 here).

> I took a stab at it myself, but became hopelessly mired in some library
> conflicts with the existing nvidia-glx-new. Of course I attempted this
> on my main dev box which is setup for twinview, big mistake. I'm totally
> hosed until I can either figure out how to re-install nvidia-glx-new, or
> just perhaps dist-upgrade to Intrepid. Guess I should have done this
> work on one of my nVidia laptops first. I toast them and reinstall all
> the time.
>
> rtg

If you can put the error in pastebin I can at least help you restore nvidia-
glx-new (or nvidia-glx-new-envy).

Let me know

Alberto