it is about 3 months ago when i changed the vid card. i dont remember if i removed the driver, but very likely not. iirc some nvidia stuff was removed at upgrade to 9.10.
when i now look into synaptics related to nvidia i have
xserver-xorg-video-nv
nvidia-96-modaliases
nvidia-185-modaliases
nvidia-173-modaliases
nvidia-common
smartdimmer
as i follow a bit the development of open source vid drivers at phoronix i knew, that ati dropped the support for older cards and people should use the open source drivers instead. so i had never the need of installing closed source drivers. in the time between the vid card change and the upgrade i had several reboots, mainly because of kernel header updates iirc.
it is about 3 months ago when i changed the vid card. i dont remember if i removed the driver, but very likely not. iirc some nvidia stuff was removed at upgrade to 9.10.
when i now look into synaptics related to nvidia i have xorg-video- nv 96-modaliases 185-modaliases 173-modaliases
xserver-
nvidia-
nvidia-
nvidia-
nvidia-common
smartdimmer
as i follow a bit the development of open source vid drivers at phoronix i knew, that ati dropped the support for older cards and people should use the open source drivers instead. so i had never the need of installing closed source drivers. in the time between the vid card change and the upgrade i had several reboots, mainly because of kernel header updates iirc.