[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick

2010-10-27 Thread ludwigmace
Seems that the 96 drivers have been updated every few months, with the longest delays being 5 and 8 months. This is an older legacy chipset so I'm OK with the fact that they don't update their drivers immediately whenever a Linux distribution updates its graphics packages. Last update was 7/15

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

2010-10-13 Thread ludwigmace
If you're not sure if your card uses a legacy Nvidia driver or not, please see this list: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html It looks like this bug report is specifically for nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers. So if your card (or its PCI ID) isn't on the above list underneath the