nvidia-glx-71 a.k.a. nvidia-legacy not longer in repository
Bug #501064 reported by
adonet
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This driver is for legacy Nvidia cards and was part of the repositories including Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) after that is disappeared and that is very sorry when trying to install ubuntu on older machines.
| affects: | ubuntu → nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
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Unfortunately Nvidia didn't update their driver 71.xx to add the support for recent releases of the xserver that Ubuntu uses. There is nothing we can do to solve this problem because the driver is proprietary and we don't have access to its source code.
We plan on replacing the driver with the open source "nouveau" driver which (in the future) will support 3D acceleration.