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

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 08:41 -0600, jwbirdsong wrote:
> 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)

Ah. Last I checked repos was 196.36.15. Thanks.