Comment 161 for bug 948053

Hello,

does anyone know whether it is safe for now (and the future) to update xserver-xorg and its dependencies to the newest versions without breaking compatibility with the nvidia-96 branch of gfx drivers?
I am so happy that I was able to make my old NV18 gpu running on a fresh install of LTS 12.04 Lubuntu after I experienced mysterious graphical glitches and severe system slowdowns with nouveau driver modules when I gave Lubuntu 12.10 a try.

It took me hours and hours of troubleshooting to find out, that the lack of support for legacy nvidia gpus was causing the hassle in the first place.
And now I am afraid of breaking the running system again with an update of the xserver, that is, if i got it right, on the brink to be updated to a new (and yet unsupported?!) ABI version.

What would you experts suggest? Fix a certain xserver version?

Thank you very much, especially those who helped to make nvidia-96 drivers working in 12.x releases!