[arch-dev-public] Temporarily removed nvidia legacy driver

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Thu Apr 14 01:58:09 EDT 2011


On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:54:40 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Just to let you know: I have removed the nvidia-173xx driver packages
> from [extra]. They wont work with current xorg-server anyway. Once
> nvidia releases a new driver these can be readded easily. Keeping a
> package that cannot work is kind of pointless.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Pierre

I also had to remove the nvidia-96xx packages we still had. This means
if you want to use the proprietary driver you'll need at least a Geforce
6. There is nothing we can do about this.

Greetings,

Pierre

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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