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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:57:42AM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> This python script sounds neat, could you put an item on your "when the 
> preview is out and the dust settled" list (for Hoary I think) to 
> integrate this, or something similar, so that people get the nvidia 
> binary kernel module, and X reconfigured, with OpenGL drivers rocking, 
> with a single apt-get? And ATI too?

Another, simpler option would be to install the drivers by default.  Then,
when xfree86 is autoconfigured, it would select the binary drivers in
preference to the open source ones if they are present.  Simple, effective,
and flexible.  Users who choose to make CDs without the drivers on them
would get the open source drivers automatically.  Users can easily switch
between the drivers once they have installed, by selecting from the list of
available drivers in dpkg-reconfigure.

If we are going to include these drivers on the CD and distribute them
anyway, and they provide better support for the hardware, then we should use
them by default, no apt-get necessary.

The reason we aren't doing this for the preview is that we've done all our
testing for Warty with the open source drivers.  We _might_ consider it for
final if we encounter many bugs which would be addressed this way, but
otherwise I think it should be a Hoary item.

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 - mdz