What package(s) are needed to install nvidia support ?

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:44:58PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, John wrote:
> > Do it when you can, but make a decent effort. Sure it's too late for
> > Warty; you need some improvements for Hoary, don't you?
> 
> For hoary the story is totally different also because we will stop using
> xfree86 and that basically will require a full repackage starting from
> scratch. Here we have been working with packages coming from Debian that
> have been designed with a different user target. There have been a lot of
> improvements in them.

We can use libdl with X11R6.8, which means that replacing the driver
with a wrapper is far more simple than with the ELF loader[0], so I'd
call this one Hoary.

[0]: Loader functions that go sufficiently deep to not touch the driver
     lists are not exposed to drivers.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
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