I have a Nvidia Quadro NVS 280 graphics card installed in my PC which I've recently installled LMDE (RC) on.
In order to get compiz working I want to install the Nvidia 173 legacy driver.
I'm following a guide in this thread http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=62953
But no matter why I try apt-get or synaptic package manager cannot find any of the Nvidia legacy packages.
So far I've installed these
nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-vdpau-driver
nvidia-settings
nvidia-xconfig
But these fail
nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx
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sg steve # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms
E: Package 'nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx' has no installation candidate
sg steve #
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sg steve # more /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport #Added by software-properties
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
Thanks