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

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Thu May 13 18:54:31 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:47 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
> 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.

As well as nvidia-beta. Though that's not in the repos. Just for
completeness.



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