Third package for nvidia-glx is needed
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Nvidia is now obsoleting next pack of older video cards. According to this:
http://
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:/
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.
