*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 96430 ***

Public bug reported:

Nvidia is now obsoleting next pack of older video cards. According to
this:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html

all cards older than 5xxx series (nv30 afair) are no longer supported in
latest drivers. This means that probably three separate packages will be
needed for nvidia drivers as described in above appendix.

As Sitsofe Wheeler noted in his comment
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/91064/comments/7)
we need these three branches:

o Legacy 71xx drivers (broadly GeForce 2 and below) (now nvidia-glx-legacy)
o New legacy 96xx (broadly GeForce 2MX- GeForce 4 4000)
o "Supported" new drivers (broadly GeForce 5000 and above) (now nvidia-glx)

If it's not fixed soon it will make a real mess with drivers when
1.0-97xx series are in the main repositories because many people still
use GeForce 4 cards (which are most affected) and restricted-manager
will assume that the card needs nvidia-glx package.

** Affects: Ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

-- 
Third package for nvidia-glx is needed
https://launchpad.net/bugs/96611

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