[arch-dev-public] Fwd: Nvidia drivers needed a new branch

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:50 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Oct 08, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> I think that new branch of nvidia driver is needed for the nvidia 5 FX
> >> series users.
> >> I don't know if someone already report problem to you. In this case i'm
> >> sorry for disturb!
> >
> > Just fell prey to this also. Thanks for the head's up.
> 
> Damnit nvidia! Just how many packages do you expect us to have?
> 
> We currently have... what? 3 different packages? Now we need 4. *sigh*

We'll reduce it to 2 as soon as xorg migrates to extra. Somehow they
think legacy drivers need legacy xorg servers.