On 2011-12-02 00:05, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> writes: > >> I thought to ask since now testing carries 1.11.x series of xorg, so all >> testing/unstable users of 96xx are stuck and there is no obvious >> workaround any more. > >> I wonder if there was any motion upstream to provide this legacy support >> for newer X? > > There were some rumblings a while back, but I never saw them materialize. > Unfortunately, NVIDIA has been known to completely abandon legacy drivers > in the past; we've already dropped one old variant without any alternative > (other than the open source drivers).
Finally a (beta?) release 96.43.23 appeared on Nvidia's ftp server that claims to have support for up to Xorg Xserver 1.12. I just packaged this and uploaded it to experimental - please give it a try together with wheezy's xserver-xorg-core and report back here, s.t. we may consider reverting the empty transitional packages that are currently in wheezy. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
