how to NOT upgrade to nvidia 7129?

Fri Apr 1 03:45:45 UTC 2005

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:01:08PM +1000, Adam Membrey wrote:
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>>well since the latest update to the repo's has nvidia 7129, how do I 
>>force my system to keep 6629 as the driver?
>>
>>As people have seen on the mailing list, 7129 causes my system to lock 
>>and I refuse to use it
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> dpkg --get-selections nvidia-glx > nvidiafile
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> Edit nvidiafile to change "install" to "hold"
> 
> dpkg --set-selections < nvidiafile
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> rm nvidiafile
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many MANY thanks :)

This is what I love about ubuntu, there's just so many friendly people 
willing to help :)