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Re: [Cooker] Naming of new NVIDIA legacy driver series, 173.14.xx

Anssi Hannula

2008-06-18

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Moreno wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Anssi Hannula <anssi@(protected):
>> Hi all!
>>
>> NVIDIA has dropped support for GeForce FX in their last beta proprietary
>> driver. GeForce FX will continue to be supported by 173.14.xx legacy
>> release series.
>>
>> Currently we have:
>> nvidia-current
>> nvidia96xx
>> nvidia71xx
>>
>> There are couple of alternative names for the new driver branch:
>> nvidia173
>> nvidia173xx
>> nvidia173.14
>>
>> I think I'm going to package it as "nvidia173".
>> It'll be somewhat inconsistent with our pre-existing 96xx and 71xx,
>> though, but the "xx" are there for historical reasons. I don't think it
>> would be worth it to rename the old ones to nvidia96 and nvidia71, though.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>

> Please, is possible solve the compilation problem of 96xx and 71xx
> with new 2.6.26 kernel ??

I think it is possible. I haven't looked at the issue thoroughly yet,
but if someone sees a ready-made patch somewhere, please inform me :)
I'll try to fix it myself soon.

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Anssi Hannula
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