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Auteur: wirelessduck
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Microcode and Nvidia drivers on Daedalus


> On 22 Aug 2023, at 19:18, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@???> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@???> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just a quick note on something that I didn’t see in the Daedalus release notes.
>>
>> Cpu microcode packages have been moved to the new `non-free-firmware`
>> repository component, so anyone using intel-microcode or
>> amd64-microcode packages will have to add this new component in
>> sources.list.
>>
>> I think this might actually be documented somewhere but perhaps I missed it?
>>
>> In any case, the nvidia-driver package now also requires the
>> non-free-firmware component to install one of its dependency
>> packages. This is something I didn’t see documented anywhere even in
>> debian 12 release notes.
>
> Guess you missed the top of
>
> https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610
>
> and the section on archive areas in the Release Notes proper
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#archive-areas
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
> Olaf Meeuwissen


It does indeed, thanks. I’m not quite sure how I managed to miss all of that.

Tom