[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#594310: Bug#594310: nvidia-kernel-source: the version supplied is completely outdated. The new validated version for linux is 256.38.03

[VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN]

  On 08/25/2010 10:15 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Eric Valette"<eric2.valette at orange-ftgroup.com>  writes:
>
>> I put normal instead of wishlist because as far as I know 195.x
>> does not compile with recent kernel.
> It compiles with the kernel that's in Debian unstable and is releasing
> with squeeze.  We won't be able to upload 256.* versions to Debian until
> after the squeeze release, since the priority right now is to get packages
> into squeeze that are reasonable.  We may, if people have time, get
> packages for experimental, but it's a lower priority for Debian at the
> moment.
>
> I don't believe there's any newer kernel packaged for Debian at all right
> now, since people are focusing on the release.  If you're using a
> custom-built kernel from newer sources, you'll need to use a custom
> download of the NVIDIA packages as well for the time being.
>
2.6.35 is available in experimental and the nvidia driver version does 
not compile with it.

Note, it is just because I have to reinstall the upstream package each 
time a new old
release is packaged. MP4 hardware decoding is much better with the 
upstream release.

-- eric


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