[arch-general] testing xorg packages may not be nvidia friendly

Burlynn Corlew Jr burlynn at gmail.com
Thu May 13 18:47:04 EDT 2010


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com>wrote:

> I tried installing testing on a box running nvidia drivers that I have
> at school. X didn't come up. I don't know why and didn't really
> investigate (as I was really testing to see if my box at home had an
> env issue seems it does). using nvidia-173xx-utils
>
> --
> Caleb Cushing
>
> http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com


Nvidia has not released a driver for xorg 1.8 in regards to a legacy driver.
The only one working so far afaik is the 'nvidia' driver itself. This is one
thing  preventing 1.8 moving out of testing.


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