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[Michael Marley <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2018-09-04 23:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> Is this list a sensible place for this question?  If not, I'll go quietly, but I've been having trouble getting help on it and thought there would be expertise here. 
>
> I've got an old Dell laptop with nVidia on the mobo.  I use the proprietary 304 driver for a non-profit, where it's ability to probe monitor capabilities lets me triage donated monitors. 
>
> I installed 18.04.1 LTS (bionic beaver) and I'm having trouble getting that driver on.  It worked fine (and still does) in 16.04.5 (xenial) and I'm very happy I didn't mess with the  xenial partition, but I know it's heading to "end of life"... 
>
> The problem shows up when I do 
> apt-get --assume-yes --quiet install nvidia-304 
> which I do in a script (and under script(1)) so that I can capture what happens when it reports 
>
> 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-304 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-15 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-18 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-19 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-20 but it is not installable or
> xorg-video-abi-23
> Depends: xserver-xorg-core but it is not going to be installed
> Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 331.20) but it is not going to be installed
> Recommends: libcuda1-304 but it is not going to be installed
> Recommends: nvidia-opencl-icd-304 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 
>
> I note that xenial does not seem to have "xorg-video-abi" packages, but does have "xserver-xorg-core" installed.  Bionic does not seem to have either one. 
>
> Is there any way to get the prerequisites in Bionic? 
>
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>
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>
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Hi Kevin, 

The NVIDIA 304-series drivers do not support Xorg 1.20 as used on Ubuntu
Bionic, which is why you are getting those dependency errors (and why
304 is not available in the Bionic repository).  304 has also gone out
of support from NVIDIA, so it is highly unlikely that this situation
will ever change.  You will need to use the nouveau driver with Bionic
on this hardware. 

Michael