nvidia-glx update

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 27 18:49:21 BST 2006


On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:49:39AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:55:45PM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote:
> >> What would be the timescale for an update to the latest nvidia driver
> >> i.e. 8774 appearing in dapper?
> > 
> > There are no plans to update that driver in Dapper.  Because updates to the
> > stable release affect a large number of users, they are only issued to fix
> > severe bugs, not to add new functionality.
> 
> So, will it be provided in -backports?

Kernel updates in backports are problematic, not the least because there are
no security updates for it, but it's something which could be discussed with
the backports team.

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 - mdz



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