[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#596471: Bug#596471: [nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx] Incompatible with current X.Org server

[Russ Allbery]

FIlipus Klutiero <chealer at gmail.com> writes:

> X doesn't start when configured to use nvidia using nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx 
> 71.86.14-1 due to the current X.Org server video driver API not being 
> supported by the 71xx series:

> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: 
> AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

Indeed, that looks bad.

Unfortunately, this is also the latest release upstream of the 71.*
version of the drivers.  Since this is a non-free binary driver, there
isn't really anything that we can do about this except hope that upstream
releases a new version to fix it.

At this point, it's probable that we'll have to release squeeze without
this package.  In the longer term, I think the only way to get a fix will
be to convince upstream that someone is still using an older card with the
new X.org server.  The best way to do that is to report your problem to
the upstream forums and ask there if a new release is planned.

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