Bug#643584: any chance to get 96xx working in testing/unstable

[Russ Allbery]

Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com> writes:

> I thought to ask since now testing carries 1.11.x series of xorg, so all
> testing/unstable users of 96xx are stuck and there is no obvious
> workaround any more.

> I wonder if there was any motion upstream to provide this legacy support
> for newer X?

There were some rumblings a while back, but I never saw them materialize.
Unfortunately, NVIDIA has been known to completely abandon legacy drivers
in the past; we've already dropped one old variant without any alternative
(other than the open source drivers).

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