On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
I would like to move xorg to extra soon. The state of X.org in testing is a lot better than the packages in extra. This means problems for some users though:
- nvidia-96xx doesn't work - nvidia-71xx doesn't work - catalyst doesn't work
All the other drivers should work fine, as they're either opensource drivers or binary drivers that support X.Org 7.4 by now. People affected by this should either stick with the old xorg-server or install free drivers with support for their hardware.
I don't wish to wait for new non-free drivers, as the non-free vendors don't give any information about X.Org 7.4 support on their roadmap. We can wait for 6 months if we keep waiting on this.
It'd be a good idea to set conflicts=() with the older nvidia/catalyst so that their xorg doesnt get upgraded, and thus their X isn't broken. That way we don't piss off a lot of people.