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

[Martin Pitt]

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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