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Tobias Powalowski

31 Oct 2009 31 Oct '09

10:12 p.m.

Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org We will see how fast new fixed legacy drivers will be released, if ever. As alternatives, you can use nouveau, nv or vesa drivers instead. Negative effect, you lose 3D functionality, but you gain a none tainted system ;) Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

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Thomas Bächler

31 Oct 31 Oct

10:15 p.m.

Tobias Powalowski schrieb:

Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

Pierre tested this, and this also concerns the 173 series.

Tobias Powalowski

10:18 p.m.

Am Samstag 31 Oktober 2009 schrieb Thomas Bächler:

Tobias Powalowski schrieb:

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Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

Pierre tested this, and this also concerns the 173 series.

Yes, both legacy drivers are affected, 173 and 96 series. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

Andrea Scarpino

1 Nov 1 Nov

5:27 p.m.

On 31/10/2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

We will see how fast new fixed legacy drivers will be released, if ever.

As alternatives, you can use nouveau, nv or vesa drivers instead. Negative effect, you lose 3D functionality, but you gain a none tainted system ;) Why you didn't write an announcement for this?

-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Andreas Radke

6:17 p.m.

Am Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:27:52 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino :

On 31/10/2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

We will see how fast new fixed legacy drivers will be released, if ever.

As alternatives, you can use nouveau, nv or vesa drivers instead. Negative effect, you lose 3D functionality, but you gain a none tainted system ;) Why you didn't write an announcement for this?

Because we didn't know this for sure. There wasn't any bug report left. And I'm totally against holding back anything because of closed stuff. -Andy

Dieter Plaetinck

10:02 p.m.

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:17:48 +0100 Andreas Radke wrote:

Am Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:27:52 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino :

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On 31/10/2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

We will see how fast new fixed legacy drivers will be released, if ever.

As alternatives, you can use nouveau, nv or vesa drivers instead. Negative effect, you lose 3D functionality, but you gain a none tainted system ;) Why you didn't write an announcement for this?

Because we didn't know this for sure. There wasn't any bug report left. And I'm totally against holding back anything because of closed stuff.

-Andy

crap. i totally missed this mail. i suggest to put a newsitem about this on the frontpage. better late then never. Dieter

Pierre Schmitz

10:08 p.m.

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:02:54 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:17:48 +0100 Andreas Radke wrote:

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Am Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:27:52 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino :

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On 31/10/2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

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We will see how fast new fixed legacy drivers will be released, if ever.

As alternatives, you can use nouveau, nv or vesa drivers instead. Negative effect, you lose 3D functionality, but you gain a none tainted system ;)

Why you didn't write an announcement for this?

Because we didn't know this for sure. There wasn't any bug report left. And I'm totally against holding back anything because of closed stuff.

-Andy

crap. i totally missed this mail. i suggest to put a newsitem about this on the frontpage. better late then never.

Dieter

What about adding the legacy drivers to xorg-servers conflict array and remove them from the repo? -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Tobias Powalowski

10:42 p.m.

Am Sonntag 01 November 2009 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:02:54 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck

wrote:

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On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:17:48 +0100

Andreas Radke wrote:

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Am Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:27:52 +0100

schrieb Andrea Scarpino :

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On 31/10/2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Hi guys, Since xorg has moved to extra repository, we will have broken nvidia legacy drivers:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=139388&highlight=x.org

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...
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We will see how fast new fixed legacy drivers will be released, if ever.

As alternatives, you can use nouveau, nv or vesa drivers instead. Negative effect, you lose 3D functionality, but you gain a none tainted system ;)

Why you didn't write an announcement for this?

Because we didn't know this for sure. There wasn't any bug report left. And I'm totally against holding back anything because of closed stuff.

-Andy

crap. i totally missed this mail. i suggest to put a newsitem about this on the frontpage. better late then never.

Dieter

What about adding the legacy drivers to xorg-servers conflict array and remove them from the repo?

Shouldn't we gave them(nvidia) some time to fix this before removing it from the repo? Just a thought. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

Thomas Bächler

11:11 p.m.

Tobias Powalowski schrieb:

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Dieter What about adding the legacy drivers to xorg-servers conflict array and remove them from the repo?

Shouldn't we gave them(nvidia) some time to fix this before removing it from the repo? Just a thought. greetings tpowa

We can always leave the PKGBUILDs in trunk and re-add the packages as soon as they release a fixed version.

Pierre Schmitz

11:19 p.m.

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:11:17 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Tobias Powalowski schrieb:

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Dieter What about adding the legacy drivers to xorg-servers conflict array and remove them from the repo?

Shouldn't we gave them(nvidia) some time to fix this before removing it from the repo? Just a thought. greetings tpowa

We can always leave the PKGBUILDs in trunk and re-add the packages as soon as they release a fixed version.

Idid not mean to wipe them completely from our svn. Just doing a db-remove and adding the correct conflicts to xorg-server should be enough. Keeping broken dirvers in the repos is more confusing. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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