Bug#603878: nvidia-graphics-drivers: various issues upgrading from lenny's nvidia-*-legacy-96xx

[Russ Allbery]

Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:44:41 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Right, the problem that had is because the version of
>> nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx which works properly with the
>> squeeze Xorg server still hasn't migrated to squeeze.  The upgrade
>> should work fine with the version in unstable.

>> Reassigning this bug and updating the version information accordingly,
>> since this bug is fixed in unstable.  We're just waiting on ia32-libs
>> for the NVIDIA packages to all migrate to squeeze.

> Ok, thanks for the rapid response :)  Interestingly I've been
> working on the ia32-libs issue to get fglrx-driver unblocked as well.

nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx would have had a similar problem, in
that it has no upgrade path, since there's no version of those drivers
available from NVIDIA that work with the latest server.  I hadn't thought
about that.  But it looks like it's not a problem since that wasn't in
stable, nor was nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy (which predates it).  We
got lucky there.

Once nvidia-graphics-drivers{,-legacy-173xx,-legacy-96xx} all propagate,
we have a defined upgrade path for everything that was in lenny, I think.

At some point, we probably do want to push people more towards nouveau,
but the NVIDIA drivers still support some stuff that nouveau doesn't even
on GPUs that nouveau supports.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>