Comment 19 for bug 494166

Harry, thanks for the info on the problem with the Nvidia Vdpau PPA. The problem with the xserver-xorg-video-5 instead of 6 was due to my initial laziness in just copying the binaries from Karmic over the Lucid. I have corrected it by building the drivers against Lucid. The new 190/195 driver in the PPA should support Lucid, and do provide xserver-xorg-video-6.

Also, I have packaged them to use the external libvdpau, which is close to how the blob will be packaged in Lucid and beyond. I updated nvidia-common to use the 190/195 modaliases packages so jockey can be used to install the drivers -- no need to mess with nvidia-xconfig or directly edit xorg.conf.

I also packaged vdpauinfo which can be installed as an informational tool.

Harry wrote "I wonder what is there that takes so long to get the latest stable drivers into Ubuntu main repos."

There are a great number of scripts which must be painstakingly changed each time a new blob is released. One mistake, just one little oversight can result in a showstopper.