On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Sebastian Breier wrote: > Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 01:28 +0200 schrieb Artur Rona: >> Hello. >> In hardy is available a nvidia-envy driver with version 173.14.05, but >> in intrepid is version 169.12. Why intrepid doesn't have the latest >> version of nvidia driver? >> Greetings. > > nvidia-envy is a privately packaged version of the NVidia driver by > Alberto Milone [1]. > The actual Ubuntu NVidia driver in hardy (8.04) is 169.12 > +2.6.24.13-19.42. > > intrepid is a fork of Debian's current packages, and so it's no > requirement to have the latest NVidia driver, as they are not pulled > from the actual source at NVidia. > > If you need a newer NVidia driver, you should file a bug report against > nvidia-glx-new on Launchpad that will request an update.
No need to file bugs (although I'm sure there are a couple already..). The nvidia packages are under a massive overhaul (being split from l-r-m, for starters), so it takes some time to get the work finished and uploaded in the archive. t -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
