Comment 25 for bug 219630

Please see my PPA for updated XSERVER-XORG-CORE, NSC and GEODE packages:

NSC: Required one change from Debian, because Hardy has an older version of debhelper. Otherwise, pretty much usable as-is. The main change it introduces is the elimination of PCI ID for non-NSC devices from the nsc.ids it ships. Everything else is to bring the deprecated package in line with recent Debian policy changes.

GEODE: is a backport of 2.10.0, which includes both the BIOS-less DDC polling from 2.9.0, plus the addition of support for the OLPC XO-1 and several bug fixes. Since supporting new hardware is suitable for an SRU, I'm hereby nominating this for Hardy.1 release.

XSERVER-XORG-CORE: I have made exactly one change to the Hardy metapackage, to replace the dependency on AMD with a dependency on GEODE. The rest is identical.

NOTE: several users have confirmed that the only to succeed in getting the GEODE and NSC drivers to work in LTSP is by upgrading to the combination of above drivers and updated X core. The key problem seems to be that the backward-compatibility symbolic link between geode_drv.so and amd_drv.so doesn't work as intended on Debian/Ubuntu (it works as expected on other distributions), plus the GX2 code in NSC simply doesn't work as advertised, which requires letting GEODE handle it. Also, the metapackage's dependency on the transitional package (which contains those symbolic links) seems to hinder one's chances of letting APT autoremove it.