** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * Users of the quantal lts backport stack on precise will not be able to install nvidia + drivers + * This is because we have not renamed these drivers with the proper changed package + names in the nvidia drivers + + [Test Case] + + # LANG=C apt-get install nvidia-experimental-304 + The following packages have unmet dependencies: + nvidia-experimental-304 : Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901) + E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. + + [Regression Potential] + + Low. The backports stack is new functionality that is coming in 12.04.2, + so changes that affect this will have no impact on earlier versions of + 12.04 + + [Original Text] + None of the nvidia and fglrx drivers can be installed through the gui, because they have a versioned depends on xserver-xorg-core. For example: # LANG=C apt-get install nvidia-experimental-304 The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-experimental-304 : Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Furthermore even some packages are shown that cannot be installed on the renamed x server, because the drivers haven't been updated to work on them. For example nvidia-current: nvidia-current : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. nvidia-common needs to be updated to hide versions of nvidia drivers that won't work on x 1.13 or later, and make them installable. I think the xserver-xorg-core version check can be removed, in favor of checking the video abi version. Furthermore drivers should have an alternative dependency on the new xserver
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