On 04/23/2011 05:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In<1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>,
Stephen Powell wrote:
I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still
maintained by the X.org developers for a while. However, the Nouveau driver
reaching some level of usefulness has seen the X.org developers stop
supporting the nv driver.
Debian testing exists to produce the next stable. Debian tries to avoid
including unmaintained software in a stable release. Unless the nv driver
gets a maintainer, which seems unlikely, it would need to be dropped from
testing before the next stable release. It was dropped as early as possible
to identify issues and have the most time available to remedy them, either by
recommending a good migration path or providing the missing functionality.
But OP is correct that nv *works*. *Everywhere*.
Nouveau, OTOH, *doesn't* work everywhere.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_2639_flip&num=4
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