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

[jwbirdsong]

On 05/13/2010 04:54 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>    
AUR's nvidia-beta== 195.36.24 (same as nvidia in testing)