Comment 16 for bug 59945

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Jason Fergus (leech-sisna) wrote : Re: [Bug 59945] Re: no nvidia support

It's in the nvidia-settings package. The file is /usr/lib/libXNVCtrl.a

Jason

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:11 +0000, StefanPotyra wrote:
> @IanW:
> this would be one possibility, however that would mean that we'd need to duplicate the source package, which should generally be avoided (fix a bug in once, need to fix it for the second source package as well).
>
> The right fix would IMHO be to have nvidia-settings be either promoted
> to main or "demoted" to universe, so that we can build-depend on it.
>
> P.S.: @Jason, is libXNVCtrl still in the nvidia-glx package? (couldn't
> find it in the current gutsy one, but I haven't looked really close
> though).
>
> P.P.S.: sorry, but this won't make it into gutsy, however I'll try to
> see to get it done for hardy.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan.
>