backporting nvidia to squeeze

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
> On 2011-11-07 00:48, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

>>> now that most things have settled, I think time has come to consider
>>> backporting the current nvidia driver to squeeze. In about a week my

> ... tomorrow or the day after ...

>>> last upload series should enter wheezy and we will have a driver there
>>> that supports Xserver 1.11 without slowing down on older cards.  To get
>>> a working backport, we need

> * glx-alternatives (0.2.0~bpo60+1)
> * nvidia-support (20111111+1~bpo60+1)
> * nvidia-graphics-drivers (275.36-0~bpo60+1)

> Everything is prepared in SVN in branches/squeeze-backports.

> It would be nice if you could upload them, eventually the upload date
> should be bumped at that time.

Uploaded.  Thanks.

> We could also backport the current releases (after merging current
> n-g-d) - even if they don't support latest Xserver 1.11 (but that is
> currently not needed, squeeze has 1.7 and squeeze-backports 1.10), they
> bring support for newer kernels, e.g. the bpo kernel. But so far I
> haven't seen such a request or bug report.

Good point.  But yeah, no one seems to have asked for them yet.

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