Hi, for jessie we will finally have to phase out the 96xx nvidia legacy driver which is no longer supported by NVIDIA and no longer compatible with the current Xserver 1.14
We had planned to do this for wheezy already, but there was a final upstream release that restored compatibility and we got the driver back into wheezy. I recovered most of the templates, but not all of the information was till relevant, so I made some changes and ask for another review before I send out a call for translations. The package is already sitting in experimental. I hope I prepared everything general enough to be easily reusable once the 173xx series reaches End-of-Life status (which may happen for jessie, too). ===== 8< ===== 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. ===== >8 ===== This is just a big red error message upon installation (upgrading to) of the obsolete package. Currently I don't plan to do hardware checks to suggest "better" alternatives. Thanks Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
