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nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 package

  1. Bug #308410
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 308410

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 308410] Re: Latest Xorg removes nvidia driver ... conflicting xserver-xorg-video-4

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:30:23PM -0000, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Tomorrow is going to be "fun". It sounds that new users installing
> Alpha 2 will be forced to use one of the two toy drivers (nv and
> nouveau), and if they force an install of the real driver, they'll hose
> X. Unless they bypass apt, go straight to nvidia, install that package,
> and make the necessary change to xorg.conf.
>
> Sounds like a good entry for tomorrow's release page (if you're going to
> install Alpha 2, just live with the toy drivers for now if you aren't
> sure of your ability to get the real one working yourself), and a good
> reason to hang out in the IRC channel with a URL to this bug report in a
> paste buffer.

Added:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyJackalope/TechnicalOverview

Bryce