On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:44:35 debian-user-digest- [email protected] wrote: > > The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian > > support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded "legacy" drivers > > that will only work on "legacy" Xorg with no warning. > > Do you not know what Release Notes are? > > > Their installation should kick, > > What's wrong with it's perfectly functional, logical and clear TUI > installation script? Debian packages have dependencies and it the package is dependent on Xorg < 1.5 !!!!, then it will not install.
I think that Nvidia's installation script can do the same. Debian's current (outdated) nvidia-legacies will no longer compile and install, at least the last I tried them. > > > the site should warn before download. This is an old story, royal > >pain > > > > the the you-know-where. > Only a pain if you don't know what Release Notes are, and you use a > Display Manager because you're too gooey to log into a console like > God Intended You To. I tried the installation from a console. It itself uses a curses GUI which is irrelevant. If it is smart enough to know if X is running, there was a former installation, etc., etc., it is smart enough to check for a compatible Xorg. No excuses. > > Keeping Nouveau in that erstwhile dri trunk means they'll never get > > anywhere. This trunk has been all but abandoned and most stuff there > > will not compile and will not work. Nouveau deserves better.. > > According to every story I've read, Nouveau is constantly improving. > In fact, it was merged into 2.6.33. So it was. Now that was release notes I really should have read. I will go into make menuconfig and enable the module and maybe give the old card one more try. Need something better than a TNT in any event. > Still, benchmarks show it trailing way behind the binary driver. There is NO binary driver for all intents and purposes. Unless one runs .... Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
