On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Robert Isaac wrote:
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free,
so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those
for a desktop.
But it would certainly be a good argument to use in a letter to your elected
representative,
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28?
Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage?
Not sure about amd64, but there is a patch available for Nvidia 177.80
which makes it compile under x86
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:07:28PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote:
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free,
so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those
for a desktop.
Well true, that it would. I guess we would have to fix that if we did
go to
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28?
Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage?
Well given the kernel isn't in unstable, it didn't seem like a problem
in need of a fix yet. Now given I
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:06 AM, A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Robert Isaac wrote:
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free,
so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those
for a desktop.
But it would
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free,
I'm sorry, but that's not the case: Debian is *only* main, non-free is
a commodity place we provide for our users, it's not that something
broked in non-free would stop the release to happen.
That is good to say, but in
On 01/06/09 17:14, Robert Isaac wrote:
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Unfortunately, I can't afford to be without a 3D desktop so that is
not an option for me.
I'm sure you have a valid reason, but it does seem rather odd that
you can't live without what many consider as eye candy.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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