Maverick Alpha3 +nvidia-96 +updates

[John Vivirito]

On 08/28/2010 10:57 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/24/2010 11:56 AM, John Vivirito wrote:
>> On 08/13/2010 01:53 AM, Robert Hooker wrote:
> ...
>>>
>>> You are going to have to use nouveau for now, the proprietary
>>> nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers do not work with xserver 1.9 and most
>>> likely will not until right before release. 256.44 that is in
>>> ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates does work for the GPU's it supports with
>>> IgnoreABI added to the serverflags section in your xorg.conf but the
>>> older releases don't. If you want accelerated 3D (for compiz) with
>>> nouveau you can install the libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package if
>>> you are using the mesa 7.8 that is in maverick.
>>>
>>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 is the proper
>>> place to report the problem, we can't do anything about it with the
>>> binary drivers.
>>>
>> Robert what do you mean it font get fixed till right before release?
>> that is 2 months away
>>
>
> John, I don't know what Robert means either, but I do see that Alberto
> has added nvidia-96 to this bug report:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/616214>
> [Should Depend: on appropriate xserver-xorg-video-$ABI]
>
> More:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/616023>
>
> I suspect that Robert is correct in stating:
> <quote>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 is the proper
> place to report the problem, we can't do anything about it with the
> binary drivers.
> </quote>
>
> Unfortunately, issue will affect many other distros as well. So I reckon
> the only solution may be to put pressure on nVidia directly.
>
> Quite a few cards that will be affected if this is not fixed by Maverick
> release:
> ====
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.18-driver.html
> GeForce 4 MX series:
> MX 440, MX 440 (AGP 8X), MX 420 (AGP 8X), MX 420, MX 440-SE, MX
> Integrated GPU, MX 460, MX 440SE (AGP 8X), MX 4000
>
> Quadro NVS series:
> NVS 285, NVS 55/280 PCI, NVS 210, NVS 420, NVS 450, NVS 50, NVS 295, NVS
> 280, NVS 440, NVS 290
>
> Quadro 4 Go series:
> 500 GoGL, 550 XGL, 700 GoGL
>
> Quadro 2 Go series:
> MXR/EX/Go
>
> GeForce 4 Ti series:
> Ti 4800, Ti 4800 SE, Ti 4400, Ti 4200 (AGP 8X), Ti 4200, Ti 4600
>
> GeForce 2 series:
> Ti 200, GeForce3, Ti 500
>
> Quadro 2 MXR series:
> Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go
> ====
>
> And I suspect quite a few non-technical Ubuntu users will be up in arms
> come release time when they find out that they can no longer use
> compiz/3D with Maverick. Perhaps the Ubuntu dev's can put a little
> pressure on nVidia to deal with this so it can be fixed/tested before
> release?
>
> I also don't see https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa /
> https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=maverick
> as a viable option. That ppa has *way* too many packages in it for the
> normal tester to try unless on a dedicated test machine. Further, it
> seems to only concern nvidia-graphics-drivers 256&  unless I've missed
> something I see nothing regarding nvidia-96.
>
>
>
>
>
Nvidia upload may fix this problem but if you look at 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/616023
that will fix the abi problem and that is the most widely bug.
it should be push through new by now if not than soon

-- 
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     John Vivirito

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