Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:44:41 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Right, the problem that had is because the version of
>> nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx which works properly with the
>> squeeze Xorg server still hasn't migrated to squeeze. The upgrade
>> should work fine with the version in unstable.
>> Reassigning this bug and updating the version information accordingly,
>> since this bug is fixed in unstable. We're just waiting on ia32-libs
>> for the NVIDIA packages to all migrate to squeeze.
> Ok, thanks for the rapid response :) Interestingly I've been
> working on the ia32-libs issue to get fglrx-driver unblocked as well.
nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx would have had a similar problem, in
that it has no upgrade path, since there's no version of those drivers
available from NVIDIA that work with the latest server. I hadn't thought
about that. But it looks like it's not a problem since that wasn't in
stable, nor was nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy (which predates it). We
got lucky there.
Once nvidia-graphics-drivers{,-legacy-173xx,-legacy-96xx} all propagate,
we have a defined upgrade path for everything that was in lenny, I think.
At some point, we probably do want to push people more towards nouveau,
but the NVIDIA drivers still support some stuff that nouveau doesn't even
on GPUs that nouveau supports.
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