Debconf template review for nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx (96.43.23-90)

Justin B Rye justin.byam.rye at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 16:01:07 UTC 2013


Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Template: nvidia/unsupported-legacy-96xx
> Type: error
> _Description: NVIDIA legacy 96xx driver is no longer supported.
>  NVIDIA Corporation has not updated the legacy 96xx driver to support
>  current X servers, so this driver is no longer usable. For graphics
>  adapters that are not supported by a newer NVIDIA driver generation,
>  the best option is to use the free Nouveau driver.
>  .
>  To switch to the Nouveau driver, uninstall all NVIDIA driver
>  packages and remove all NVIDIA-specific configuration from
>  /etc/X11/xorg.conf (and xorg.conf.d/).
>  .
>  The Nouveau driver (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau) should work without
>  needing any specific xorg.conf settings.

Informative and grammatical... if anything, too grammatical, since
short-description error messages are conventionally unpunctuated:

  _Description: NVIDIA legacy 96xx driver is no longer supported

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package



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