xserver-xorg breaks nvidia?

mat nicholson sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com
Wed Apr 6 14:44:05 UTC 2005


running 5.04rc and as of late, when a new xserver-xorg is 
release/updated, i have to manually reinstall/configure the nvidia 
driver because of a mismatch (the install nvidia-glx is looking for the 
older version of xorg) its jsut anoying to watch teh system boot up try 
to start x, then die and dump me at a prompt. anyone else experiance 
this? any solutions? would it be possible to have teh xserver-xorg 
package check for an existing nvidia install (maybe just grep xorg.conf 
for it or something) and if found either reset up teh nvidia driver, 
default back to nv and warn the user or maybe even give them a 
menu/choice via debconf?

i'd be willing to help and work on this, i woul jsut need direction, 
seenig as how i have never working with packaging, but do have 
programming/scripting experiance and am learning python in a production 
development as we speak.
thanks guys

mat nicholson
sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com




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