Nvidia is at 173 in Juanty, will there be newer upgrades?

[NoOp]

On 04/24/2009 01:36 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:


>     I went to my Jaunty laptop and with the Synaptic Package Manager I 
> put nvidia into search and came up with a complete set of NVIDIA Binary 
> Xorg drivers, starting I think with nvidia-glx-71 which you can try and 
> I think that will work fine with your old nvidia hardware. As I said 
> before on this computer I have a nvidia hardware problem which is no 
> longer a problem. There are a lot of drivers now :-)

Heads up:

<quote>
Unfortunately driver 71.xx won't be updated to work with the new xserver
and there is nothing we can do about it. Should things change in the
future, feel free to reopen this bug report.

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu Intrepid)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu Jaunty)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
</quote>

Ref:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/251107>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-71/+bug/251107/comments/219>