295.xx or 302.xx?

[Diederik de Haas]

On Thursday 21 June 2012 12:27:10 Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> in terms of hardware support both are identical, but there is a whole
> bunch of new features and fixed (and probably bugs, too) in 302.xx

I'm using KDE and upgrading to the 302.xx driver fixed an issue after logging out 
and back in again, which caused rendering issues in both Iceweasel and Dolphin 
(black backgrounds, causing things to become unreadable).
It was not hard to 'fix' (logging out, restarting X, logging in) for me (using 
Sid for years), but I don't expect Stable users to figure that out/apply the 
'fix'.

And if I'm not mistaken there have been quite a few bugs wrt to 295.xx reported 
to BTS and a number of them seemed to be fixed with 302.xx (but you probably know 
better).

> Any suggestions?

Is there a chance that nvidia could make the 302.xx series a/the Long Lived 
Branch?
I don't know how/why nvidia decides which series to make into a long lived 
branch, but I wouldn't be surprised that being part of Debian Stable could help.

Other then that, keep up the good work, it's much appreciated!

Cheers,
  Diederik