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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-12-02 00:05, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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).

Finally a (beta?) release 96.43.23 appeared on Nvidia's ftp server that
claims to have support for up to Xorg Xserver 1.12.

I just packaged this and uploaded it to experimental - please give it a
try together with wheezy's xserver-xorg-core and report back here, s.t.
we may consider reverting the empty transitional packages that are
currently in wheezy.


Andreas