On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:48:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 18:25:03 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> 
> > Now that xserver-xorg-video-vga has gone away, I'm unable to use the nv 
> > driver
> > for this nv card as it is, apparently, unsupported.
> > 
> I don't think vga has worked in years.  Use vesa.

vga certainly did work up until today - vesa is installed but does not work 
(AFAICT
vesa never worked on this laptop).


Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                   Version                      
Description
+++-======================================-============================-============================================
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa                1:2.2.0-1                    X.Org X 
server -- VESA display driver

When using the packages from testing, the -vesa package did not provide a 
working
Xorg, adding the -vga package did.

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