Bug#787582: nvidia-driver: No support for new Geforce chips in Jessie

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-06-03 05:27, Kipps wrote:
> It appears that Debian Jessie cannot utilize newer video cards due to the age of the nvidia drivers. Can we get newer nvidia drivers backported to jessie so we don't have to pin experimental?

Getting current drivers into backports is on our ToDo list, but first we
need to split off new nvidia-drivers-legacy-340xx packages from the
version currently in sid.

Using the drivers from experimental should be save and smooth as we plan
to only upload new upstream stable releases (no betas) there until we
have finished the preparations in sid.


Andreas