Bug#342830: nvidia-graphics-drivers: clarify scope of package (xorg, 2.6 kernels)

2005-12-12 Thread Randall Donald
> Wandering a bit from the original issue, but why is the nvidia driver > so tightly tied to the kernel version? As far as I can tell, most of > the X drivers don't care what kernel you are using. Is it really > necessary to rebuild every time you change kernels? This seems > particularly probl

Bug#342830: nvidia-graphics-drivers: clarify scope of package (xorg, 2.6 kernels)

2005-12-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:27:19PM -0800, Randall Donald wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-12 at 17:10 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers > > > The description of some of these packages, particularly the source > > packages, refers to XFree86. This makes it appear that they wil

Bug#342830: nvidia-graphics-drivers: clarify scope of package (xorg, 2.6 kernels)

2005-12-10 Thread Randall Donald
On Sat, 2005-10-12 at 17:10 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers > The description of some of these packages, particularly the source > packages, refers to XFree86. This makes it appear that they will not > work with xorg, which will be the default X with the next release

Bug#342830: nvidia-graphics-drivers: clarify scope of package (xorg, 2.6 kernels)

2005-12-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers Severity: normal Severity bordering on wishlist, but it seems the packages are mislabelled. The description of some of these packages, particularly the source packages, refers to XFree86. This makes it appear that they will not work with xorg, which will be the d