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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #96430
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 96430

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Joseph Price (pricechild) wrote :

In reply to Ben Colins:
"We are investigating if we want to include these modules. The fact that nvidia is no longer planning to maintain the 9631 driver doesn't help the case. We have to contend with possible bugs, mainly security related issues."

The following is a quote from http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html
"Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver. These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA GPU driver releases."

This implies that the 9631 driver _will_ be maintained in the same fashion as the 7184 legacy driver.

That said, thankyou for the explanation on the other problems with maintaining this set. You've been a lot more verbose than other people I've spoken to and have explained and backed up with reasons :)

With the email on -devel mentioning it might be able to fix the broken upgrades issue I'm happier.

Pricey