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

[Marvin Renich]

* Filipus Klutiero <chealer at gmail.com> [100917 01:45]:
> Heh. It must have been a long time ago if I ever had enough trust in
> NVIDIA to ask them for anything, in particular to update their Linux
> driver for 10 year old cards. Actually, I have no card that only
> works with 71xx, I'm just reporting this package is broken so it
> can't get back in testing.
> 
> Pretty much the only thing you can do is to request the removal of
> these packages; see http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2009-September/001925.html
> 
> The situation has partly changed since then, partly thanks to your
> work. The first paragraph should now read:
> 
> The following packages are broken in unstable and testing:
> 
> nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-amd64, nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-i386

My kids' computer is a Dell Dimension 4500 (Pentium 4) with an nVidia
GeForce FX 5500, supported by nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx, and they enjoy
playing games that require accelerated graphics.  I had held off
upgrading xorg-* because of the lack of support for this card.  I
recently upgraded because I thought the new nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx would
support it, not knowing that it didn't support the new xorg packages.
If nVidia doesn't provide an updated legacy-71xx, I will have to either
downgrade xorg (not desired) or purchase a new video card.  I have done
my best to avoid buying computers with nVidia graphics recently because
of their poor support for Linux.

(I really just wanted the bug to show that at least one user cares about
this package.)

...Marvin