Ticket #390 (new enhancement)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Nvidia drivers 100.14.19

Reported by: qharley@wbs.co.za Assigned to: Free
Priority: high Milestone: 3.0
Component: build Version: 2.0
Severity: major Keywords: nvidia
Cc:

Description

Poor Free - The list is growing exponentially, and Takabuntu just reported he got his problematic NVIDIA 8500GT going using the latest flavour of the NVidia binary drivers.

Is there time to include it into to 2.1 release?

Change History

11/27/07 09:58:29 changed by free@64studio.com

Hi Quentin,

I think I missed it, please would you point me to this report from Takabuntu? 2. I'm afraid to say that the 2.1 is likely to stick again to kernel 2.6.21, because it seems that the latest NVIDIA drivers (which are the only ones that compiles cleanly against 2.6.23) need a very recent version of Xorg, which is available only in sid/lenny, and that would be very painful to backport.

12/03/07 13:20:54 changed by qharley@wbs.co.za

http://www.64studio.com/node/106

We have more and more nVidia problems as the newer hardware gets more affordable...

Cheers, Quentin

02/06/08 08:30:09 changed by qharley@wbs.co.za

I get the feeling that we might be forced to move to ECHENNY Debian soon... which is what I am seeing anyway at the moment... There will be pain, no matter if we stay back here or move forward. At least I am one of the lucky ones that does not have any hardware issues at the moment.

02/08/08 11:08:32 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • milestone changed from 2.1 to 3.0.