nVidia drivers for Intrepid available [was: Re: Platform team meeting minutes 2008/07/09]

[Mario Limonciello]

Well also need to get a mir filed for dkma and adjust the components
of this driver.



On 07/10/2008, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2008-07-10 11:04 +0100]:
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:18:22AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>> > === Evan Dandrea ===
>> > [...]
>> >  * Upgraded my desktop to Intrepid.  Bitten hard first by the lack of
>> > binary nvidia drivers and then by this bug in nv:
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/229704.
>> >  So now I'm stuck with vesa.  Bryce, is there anything I can do to help
>> > debug this?
>>
>> Consider yourself lucky; at least vesa works for you. ;-)
>
> The new-style nvidia drivers made their way to Intrepid today:
>
> nvidia-glx-71 | 71.86.04-0ubuntu4 | intrepid/multiverse | amd64, i386
> nvidia-glx-96 | 96.43.05-0ubuntu4 | intrepid/multiverse | amd64, i386
> nvidia-glx-173 | 173.14.09-0ubuntu4 | intrepid/multiverse | amd64, i386
> nvidia-glx-177 | 177.13-0ubuntu4 | intrepid/multiverse | amd64, i386
>
> They work well and care for the replacing of the old-style
> nvidia-glx-*. If you install the matching version manually, you can
> once again use your nvidia card with Intrepid, just in time for
> alpha-2 \o/.
>
> Credit goes to Alberto Milone, who restlessly worked on them in the
> past week.
>
> Next steps, FYI:
>
>  * remove the old nvidia stuff from linux-restricted-module (Tim
>    Gardner will be very happy to do that, I think :-) )
>
>  * get them into restricted (me)
>
>  * adapt Jockey to the new driver structure (Alberto and me)
>
>  * provide debconf note for upgrades with apt-get which tells you
>    whcih particular version to install, based on your hardware
>    (Alberto already has a solution for that)
>
>  * integrate migration into update-manager (with Michael)
>
> Pitti
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