Bug#681182: nvidia-settings: version 302.17-2 in testing not fully compatible with 295-59 driver

[Kitty PC]

On 12 July 2012 03:01, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> forcemerge 681237 681182
> thanks
>
> On 2012-07-11 09:03, Nathan Wallach wrote:
>> Version 302.17 of nvidia-settings does not allow setting display modes when
>> used with driver version 295.59 (current version in testing). The nvidia-
>> settings program reports that the driver is too old to support this.
>
> nvidia-graphics-drivers 302.* should migrate later today, thereafter
> this should be working again. So far we did never encounter any
> incompatibilities between the driver and nvidia-settings ... so there
> are no versioned Depends/Conflicts.

That's great to hear.

> But this probably means it is no longer working for the 173xx legacy
> release either and we need to find a solution there, too.

nvidia-settings-legacy sounds like a nice package name.

> The significant changes in 302 that could have an impact here is the
> added support for XRandr 1.2/1.3
>
>
> Andreas

Thanks for your time,
Kitty.